| 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
sir, plz throw more light on this field.
ReplyDeletethanks for info,
ReplyDeletePrashant - can you ask the questions so that its for me to reply back to your query?
ReplyDeleteI am now training over 200 students at a College on ENHANCING COMMUNICATION SKILLS & ENHANCING PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS in Hyderabad, Plz let me know how can we use your services. Professor Sudershan Batra
ReplyDeleteProf Batra, STC is a not for profit organization and can work only if you are ready to work with STC without any commercials.
ReplyDeleteDear Sir,
ReplyDeleteWill you please send the volunteer to Conduct awareness session to our BE final and pre-final year students about job/career opportunities and the expectation of the corporate world from the freshers. Please let we know the suitable date from your end.
Gomatesh M Ravanavar
Dean-Academic
Bahubali College of Engineering
Shravanabelagola - karnataka
gomatesh@gmail.com
www.bce.org.in
Hello Sir,
ReplyDeleteI am Nadeem Faisal, a 2012 passed out BE graduate in the stream Telecommunications from Vemana Institute of Technology in Bangalore.
I am passionate towards learning new things, mostly related to technology. I have worked for 3 months with Target Corporation as Master Data Specialist on contract basis. I can be a potential candidate for the Technical Communication position and would even me a chance to challenge myself while working in a reputed organization where my technical and practical skills are utilized in the best way for the benefit of the company and my career that dynamically works towards the growth of the Organization.
Kindly provide me with your personal email ID so I could email my resume to let you evaluate my profile.
Looking forward to hear from you.
Thanks & Regards,
Nadeem Faisal
Email : faisalnadeem53@gmail.com
We are looking for summer internship opportunities for our students.
ReplyDeleteKindly guide how your organization can help us in this endeavour.
Thanks & Regards,
Alka
amaurya@amity.edu
are you giving what kind of program please explain in detail.
ReplyDeletedo share your email id or reach me at rpsmarcomm@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Rajeev,
ReplyDeleteGreetings!
It was wonderful to see the Internship and Placement Strategy 2014. I have been into similar kind of soft skills training and development since 10 years and now joined a group which is also into the same. I would like to take up an opportunity to deliver the training to the students in Southern part of India with a group of professionals with all kind of soft skills training including Behavioral/Public Speaking/Presentation/Real time Interview session/Mock Interview/ Aptitude/Logical/Group discussions etc.,. I am moreover interested in working for non profit organizations. could you kindly forward the details.
Looking forward for your reply,
With Best Regards
J. Fazeela Banu
+230 7546683
Email Id: alfaoz_win@yahoo.com
Dear Mr. Rajeev,
ReplyDeletepls. also forward the details of job on my mail id ssipaulya5@gmail.com.
Sankalp, which job you are referring to? is there any job advertisement here?
ReplyDeletekindly reply to me
ReplyDeleteas i want to do seminar hare at my MBA deptt for Communication skill
thanks
Dr Pradeep Mamgain
09411387384
pradeepmamgain24@yahoo.com
Dear Mr Pradeep, I've replied on your email id.. please check and revert.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Jain,
ReplyDeleteKindly send the program details at plabanroy7239@gmail.com.
Thanking in anticipation,
Plaban Roy
Dear Plaban,
ReplyDeleteCan you be more specific with the details that you are looking for?
-Rajeev
I am a trainer PD , for sort of a motivator ,positive believer ,communication
ReplyDeletehow can i be a part if possible or a technical writer
http://anilmastana.blogspot.in
@Anil, do you want to promote technical communication / technical writing or you yourself want to become a technical writer?
ReplyDeleteboth sir want to became a technical writer and to promote
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