[Stc-ac] question about job titles

[BONNIE WEAVER]

Dear Rose,
I will check with a few knowledgeable people and get back to you about this issue.

Sincerely yours,

Bonnie Weaver
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rose Norman<mailto:normanr at uah.edu> 
  To: stc-ac at mailman.stc.org<mailto:stc-ac at mailman.stc.org> 
  Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 12:14 PM
  Subject: [Stc-ac] question about job titles


  A manager from a local company asked me this question, and agreed 
  that I might post it to this list, since I don't have a good 
  answer.  The question concerns job titles for writers and technical 
  vs. non-technical pay scales:

   >We write for engineering users.  Several years ago, technical
   >writers at our company were changed from technical pay scales to
   >non-technical when that change was made industry-wide.   Because we
   >document extremely technical information, we hire writers also have
   >computer science (or related) and engineering degrees or
   >experience.  Our company uses the same 4 writing titles for software
   >writers, marketing writers and proposal writers.
   >
   >I'm wondering if a new set of "more technical" titles that clearly
   >specified and recognized the technical skills could be classified as
   >belonging to the technical pay grades.  Maybe an "information
   >developer"  track would help, for example.
   >
   >Does anyone know of any precedents or have advice on titles that
   >would enable us to be classified as technical by the industry
  standards?

  Thanks
  Rose Norman
  Director of Business and Technical Writing
  UAHuntsville
  Huntsville, AL 35899
  http://www.uah.edu/tc<http://www.uah.edu/tc> 

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