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How to Be an Amazing Tech Comm Job Applicant: Tips from a Tech Comm Hiring Manager | TechWhirl

Veteran tech comm hiring manager Richard Rabil offers some tips on how to stand out from it the competition when applying for a technical communications role.

Source: How to Be an Amazing Tech Comm Job Applicant: Tips from a Tech Comm Hiring Manager | TechWhirl

This is an interesting article. I’m posting it so that I can not only share this with all of you, my techcomm colleagues, but also for myself. At some point, I need to renovate my e-portfolio, and I need to figure out how to raise my game in a smart way.  So, this is for my own reference, too.

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Danielle M. Villegas is a technical communicator who currently employed at Cox Automotive, Inc., and freelances as her own technical communications consultancy, Dair Communications. She has worked at the International Refugee Committee, MetLife, Novo Nordisk, BASF North America, Merck, and Deloitte, with a background in content strategy, web content management, social media, project management, e-learning, and client services. Danielle is best known in the technical communications world for her blog, TechCommGeekMom.com, which has continued to flourish since it was launched during her graduate studies at NJIT in 2012. She has presented webinars and seminars for Adobe, the Society for Technical Communication (STC), the IEEE ProComm, TCUK (ISTC) and at Drexel University’s eLearning Conference. She has written articles for the STC Intercom, STC Notebook, the Content Rules blog, and The Content Wrangler as well. She was very active in the STC, as a former chapter president for the STC-Philadelphia Metro Chapter, serving and chairing on several STC Board committees, and most recently was the STC Board Vice-President before the organization closed.. You can learn more about Danielle on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/daniellemvillegas, on Twitter @techcommgeekmom, or through her blog. All content is the owner's opinions, and does not reflect those of her employers past or present.

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