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Presentations

Tech Comm Trends panel, March 2007
2007 Technical Communications Job Market Trends
Dealing with Recruiters and Negotiating Compensation
Trends to Watch and How to Prepare
When to Trade Up
Acing your Interview
Thriving in the Oncoming Lane

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Events

Implementing Structured Authoring — a 2-day DITA/XML Intensive
Getting Started in Developer Documentation
Online and local STC Meetings

East Bay STC
Berkeley STC
Sacramento STC
San Francisco STC
North Bay STC
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Bay Area Networking Guide update project

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Escaping the Catch-22
Gettting Specific about your next opportunity
Thriving in the Oncoming Lane
Contracting Misperceptions
Technical Communications Organizations
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Researching your Target Market
Technical Communications Internships
Values, Motivations, and Needs
Technical Communications Compensation Surveys
When to Trade Up
Dealing with Recruiters and Negotiating Compensation
Alternative Career Paths
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Resumes

Ideal Technical Communications Resume
Checklist for the Ideal Resume
Technical Skills Inventory
Exemplary Resumes
Template for the Ideal Resume
Sample Cover Letter
Catch Resume Typos
Resume Bloopers
Resume-Writing service (Life's Work Career Advancement Services)

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When your Portfolio Samples are Proprietary
Building a Developer-Doc Portfolio

Interviewing

Questions to Expect

General interview questions
Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job
How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle

Questions for Recruiters
Questions for the Company
Questions for the Hiring Manager
Questions for Potential Colleagues
Questions for your References
Interviewing Do’s and Don’ts
Handling Illegal Interview Questions
Questions this Company has Asked Before
Random Interview Question Generators
What Not to Do or Say
Acing your Interview
Dealing with Recruiters and Negotiating Compensation
Writing a Thank-You Note

Contracting

Securing 100% telecommuting contracts
Misperceptions about Contracting
How we create legitimate, safe 1099-based Independent Contractor relationships
Laws affecting brokered Independent Contractors' tax status

Section 1706
Section 530

Quick, cheap, and painless W2 payrolling
Keeping California's EDD happy with your Clients
Are you really just an Offsite Employee?
The IRS' 20 Questions determining independent contractor vs employee status

IRS Form SS-8

The IRS' 50 Factors affecting your Independent Contractor status
Writing your own independent contractor's agreement (ICA)

Compensation
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Tech Comm Trends panel, March 2007
2007 Technical Communications Job Market Trends
Dealing with Recruiters and Negotiating Compensation
Trends to Watch and How to Prepare
Creating structured documentation with DITA — will you lead or follow?
Great jobs for those who can write both code and prose
Improving Information findability with Zero Search Time help
Is the (June 2001) Job Market really THAT bad?
How’s and why’s of elevator speeches

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