Monday, March 13, 2017

Technical Writing will be the highest paying jobs in India in 2017

As per Economic Times latest article, Technical Writing will be one of the highest paying Jobs in India in 2017.

 About Technical writer
Technical writer is a person who is responsible for writing documents such as:
- User Guide, Online Help, Quick Start Guide, Product Manuals
- Proposals, Technical Reports, White Papers, Technical Articles
- API Guide, Programmers Manual, Installation Guide, Release Notes

 As per Economic Times, technical writers mostly focus on the different technical documents while working with Technology or IT related companies. 

 Educational Qualification: Technical writing profession is open for graduates and post graduates of all discipline (such as BA, BCom, BSc, BBA, BCA, MBA, MCA, MA, MCom, MSc, BDS, BE, BTech, and MBBS).

 Salary range: Rs 50,000 to Rs 1.7 lakh/month (as per the article) (see STC-India salary survey)

 Top Recruiters: Oracle, NIIT, Microsoft, Biocon, HSBC, Ericsson, Siemens, Red hat, Cadence, IBM, HP, Citi bank, CA, Manipal Global, Amazon, Google, Flipkart, Reliance, EMC, SAP, Cisco, Adobe, Juniper, and Avaya.

 Other High Paying Jobs: As per the article, other high paying jobs for 2017 are as follows:

  1. Growth Hacker
  2. Social Media Manager
  3. SEO Analyst
Important: Knowledge of Technical Writing will help you in getting all the above listed jobs or even a job that you like the most.


For more details about Technical Writing and different job opportunities, see Job Opportunities in Technical Writing.

See Also

  1. STC India Education Initiatives 
  2. Job opportunities in Technical Communication
  3. Nasscom Certified Master Trainer: Rajeev Jain
  4. Technical Communication, An Unexplored world of Career Opportunites

Contact

To introduce Technical Writing at your college, please contact:

Email: rpsmarcomm@gmail.com
Cell: 9910019171
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Monday, September 9, 2013

STC-India "Awareness session on Technical Communication/Writing" at IEC, Greater Noida



Event Update
Date: Aug 31st, 2013
Number of Participants: 500+ (highest ever students in any such event)
Speakers: Madhumita Sharma (Safenet) and Rajeev Jain (Rightster India)



 
















After six successful events in Delhi-NCR based engineering and management colleges this year, STC India Education (Rajeev Jain and Madhumita Sharma) travelled all the way from Gurgaon and Delhi to reach the venue which was almost 75 km away. Since STC-India team reached much before the time, they got the opportunity to meet the IEC group president, Mr R L Gupta and the director of the IEC group, Dr Singh. Mr Gupta showed keen interest in exploring the possibilities of introducing technical communication at IEC University, near Chandigarh.



After having coffee with STC-India team, Mr Gupta accompanied them to the auditorium. The session started around 11.30 am with a formal opening ceremony by Mr Gupta. We were expecting around 150+ students for the seminar but we were surprised to see almost 500+ students in the jam packed auditorium. Rajeev Jain started the session by informing students about the importance of:
·         Technical Communication
·         Career Vs Job
·         Understanding the corporate expectations


During the session, Mr R L Gupta got so involved that he himself stood up and encouraged students to reply back and make best use of the interactive session.

Rajeev shared examples of famous Bollywood movies like Bhag Milkha and 3-idiots. As expected, not many students were aware of technical communication or technical writing but still many students showed keen interest in this profession. Madhumita shared her experiences of working as a writer and some of the key challenges faced by her. She also shared different job opportunities available for the technical communicators.



During the interactive session, students asked many questions such as:
1. Skill set required to start a career in this field.
2. Job opportunities in this filed
3. Difference between a technical writer and a content writer.
4. The importance of creativity and ideas in this profession.
5. Growth opportunities in this profession.
6. How technical communication can help them in other fields like construction and real estate.

The entire show was managed quite well by team of around 15 volunteers. There were some logistic challenges and electricity kept all the volunteers on their toes. Madhumita and Rajeev also braved through all such challenges and kept the students engaged during those forced breaks. After having lunch with volunteers and faculty, STC-India team left from college around 3.00 p.m.




Feedback
The college management shared instant feedback and informed us that the students were extremely happy and they found the session to be very good, interactive, and useful. The students wanted more sessions from the STC-India education team. College management also showed interest in conducting another event for their MBA students at IEC University, which is almost 300 KM away from Delhi. They have also asked for proposal to explore the possibilities of introducing this course at their University.

Thank you Note
STC-India team would like to thank all the students, volunteers, Mr R L Gupta, Dr Kulneet, and Supriya for providing us the opportunity to present this session and all the arrangements.



Previous Events
Some of the schools, colleges, universities where our professionals have conducted similar events in past are:

About STC India education initiative
This is the first time in the history of  STC-India that the education team is reaching out to college and universities to conduct awareness sessions about technical communication, and help the students understand the career opportunities in the field of technical communication. STC India is making an attempt to bridge the Academia-Corporate gap by conducting FREE mentoring and guidance sessions.  STC India team is extending all possible help to students, faculty, and colleges to:
- Conduct awareness sessions on technical communication
- Explore job/career opportunities in this field
- Create curriculum for the short-term Industry-Ready courses
- Help them understand the corporate needs and expectations from a Fresh Graduate
- Enhance student’s employability and make them corporate ready and even connect them with recruiter
- Invite them to attend STC India conferences, seminars, workshops, and other events


For more queries or information
If you have any queries or know of any college/university interested in conducting FREE awareness session at their college, please contact Rajeev Jain (rajeevjain72@gmail.com). Last date for conducting FREE session under STC-India banner is Oct 5th, 2013

Let’s continue work together to promote technical communication and contribute our niche to bridge the Academic-Corporate gap.


On behalf of STC-India education team

-Rajeev Jain (Email, rajeevjain72@gmail.com; 99100-19171)
Education and Scholarship Manager

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

STC India Scholarship, 2013


Eligibility

STC India chapter announces the scholarship for the year 2013 for students pursuing bachelors or master degree courses in technical communication or technical writing in India. Students having any one of the following papers in their course are also eligible:
  1. Technical Writing
  2. Technical Communication

Last Date of Application: Aug 31st, 2013

Process

  1. Complete the online form, STC India Scholarship Application Form
  2. Mail scanned copy of following documents with subject line <your name>, <college name>, and <mobile number> to stcindiaedu@gmail.com:
  • Date of birth
  • Mark-sheets of X, XII, Graduation, and Post Graduation (as applicable)
  • College i-card
  • A letter of enrollment from the college, for technical writing/communication course.
See Also,
  1. STC India Education Initiatives 
  2. Job opportunities in Technical Communication

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Job Opportunities in Technical Communication

Click here to know about STC-India initiative to promote Technical Communication among fresh graduates.
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

STC India Education Initiatives



STC-India Chapter: Education Initiatives

Technical Writing was rated as 13th best job of the world, as per 2010 survey 

STC India Initiative


You must have repeatedly heard about:
  • widening Academia-Corporate gap
  • students lacking Corporate Readiness skills
  • University curriculum not at par with corporate needs/expectations
  • Students not getting enough mentoring opportunities from corporate professionals
To address these concerns, STC India chapter is aggressively reaching out to colleges, universities, and students to:
  • Conduct awareness sessions about job/career opportunities in the field of technical communication
  • help them understand corporate expectations from a fresher 
  • introduce new short-term Industry-Ready courses or update existing courses
For more details about STC India Education Initiatives, visit "STC India Education Initiative"

Awareness and Mentoring Sessions

Society of Technical Communication (STC), India Chapter is aggressively promoting opportunities in the Technical Writing and Technical Communication among Fresh Graduate. STC-India team of volunteers (corporate professionals working in top MNCs) will:

·         Conduct awareness sessions about job/career Opportunities

·         Provide opportunity for students to attend STC conference, seminars, and other events

·         Extend help in introducing introducing Industry-Ready course or update the curriculum of existing course as per the corporate needs/expectations

·         Help students/faculty understand the corporate expectation from a fresher

·         Share the tips to become corporate ready

All this at NO COST

Scholarship Opportunity

Scholarship opportunity for student pursuing Technical Communication or Technical Writing related courses. For more details, see STC India Scholarship for 2013.

Target Students

Graduates and under graduates <Primarily MBA, MCA, BE/BTech, MA English, PG Mass Comm>  and Graduates from other areas (with excellent oral and written communication)

Recruiters


Partial list of companies where Technical Writer work: IBM, HP, Cognizant, Adobe, Siemens, Oracle, Wipro, Infosys, HCL, KPMG, Symantec, VMware, Cadence, Lionbridge, Sasken, BMC, Cybage, Agilent, Comviva, Cisco, Juniper, Vestas, Brocade, Verizon, and many more...   


Job Opportunities

Some of the Job opportunities in this field are:
1. Technical Writer/Editor
4. SEO, Content Writer
7. Business Analyst
2. API Writer
5. Social Media Expert
8. Information Developer
3. Instructional Designer
6. Corporate Communicator
9. Indexer, Usability Expert

Expected Requirement of Technical Writers:
List of Universities/Colleges:
Partial list of Universities/Colleges where volunteers have conducted events is past are:

About STC

Society of Technical Communication (STC) is the world's largest and oldest professional association dedicated to the advancement of the field of technical communication. The Society’s members span the field of the technical communication profession and reach across every industry and continent. In fact, the Society has members in almost 50 countries and is continuing to grow rapidly outside of North America and Europe.


The Society, its geographic Chapters, and its Special Interest Groups (SIGs) produce a wide array of educational events throughout the year designed to advance the knowledge of members and promote technical communication education globally. STC educational events regularly feature the thought leaders and practitioners who represent the future of the profession

To know more about STC worldwide, please visit www.stc.org and for STC-India chapter, visit www.stc-india.org


Key People

Rajeev Jain: Education and Scholarship Manager 
(Lead Technical Writer at Rightster, Published Author, Chief Mentor)
Location: Gurgaon; Email: stcindiaedu@gmail.com, rpsmarcomm@gmail.com

Ramesh Aiyyangar: President, STC - India 2013
Location: Pune; Email: aiyyangar@gmail.com 
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