[Stc-ac] question about job titles

[Capri Fisher]

I am a recent graduate from Texas A&M, and I will say that is difficult to
find a job in this field, mainly because companies have standard recruiting
offices or websites that post generic catagories that do not specify
"technical writer" or "technical editor." Each company has a different way
of stating job titles for the same technical writer position, making it
difficult for prospective new employees.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Rose Norman <normanr at uah.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
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