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Best time to hire documentation specialists

• We now have an employer's market
• There are many more documentation specialists looking for work
• This provides employers with greater choice and value for money

 

Now is the best time to hire documentation specialists. You can find great value for money as more documentation specialists flood the market and give you a greater variety of talent to choose from.

Documentation specialists are professionals involved in producing all sorts of documents. Types of specialists include technical writers, business writers, editors, instructional designers, bid writers, marketing writers and so on.

We've only just come out of a period where there was a shortage of documentation specialists. They were in a position to ask for a high contractor rates or annual salary packages.

This made having a documentation specialist on your team look expensive.

But that was last year - now it's all changed.

Why documentation specialists are valuable to a business

Documentation specialists often do more than just put words together.

Consider some of the things a documentation specialist does in a typical day:

• Gathers and capture information from all sources-existing documents through to subject matter experts
• Translates complicated concepts into simple ideas and target this to a specific audience
• Provides usability advice
• Creates technical, support, business, planning, training, marketing, bid/tender and online documentation
• Creates and maintain Web and Intranet sites
• Conducts meetings with key stakeholders
• And much more.

When hiring, you'll be getting more than just a wordsmith.

 

Posted: 16/02/2009

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