| 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
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
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4. SEO, Content Writer
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7. Business Analyst
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2. API Writer
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5. Social Media Expert
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8. Information Developer
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3. Instructional Designer
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6. Corporate Communicator
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9. Indexer, Usability Expert
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Expected Requirement of Technical Writers:
Partial
list of Universities/Colleges where volunteers have conducted events is past
are:
- Awareness Session on Technical Communication/Writing at IEC, Greater Noida
- MNC University, Haryana
- IMS, Ghaziabad
- Rukmini Devi Institute of Advanced Studies, Rohini, Delhi
- KIIT, Gurgaon
- NICSAIR, Delhi
- Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain College, Bangalore
- Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra
- IILM, Lucknow
- Bansal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur
- Geeta Institute of Technology and Management, Kurukshetra
- Taksila Business School, Greater Noida
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
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
