n an initiative to encourage ADID Alumni and other technical writers to share technical writing knowledge, ADID invited Neha Srivastava to share her understanding on the documentation development life cycle and she comes up with well-knit and researched post.You can write to her or post a comment to ask anything dropping from your mind on DDLC. Introduction to Document Development Life Cycle The Document Development Life Cycle (DDLC) is the process of developing documents. It is necessary to follow DDLC to enhance the quality and optimize timely delivery of the document. The Document Development Life Cycle is mainly comprised of steps which are given below, it can vary company or project-wise also: Requirement Analysis Designing Developing the Content Editing/ Proofreading Publishing Maintenance Requirement Analysis During the Requirement Analysis process we gather the information of the product from SMEs, available documents, online search etc. We analyze the criteria of producing the product according to the audience. In Audience analysis, we analyze who will use this product, what is the need of creating the product, and measures of skill and expertise of the audience etc. We also figure out what tools we are going to use like RoboHelp, Framemaker etc. By understanding the product requirement, we can easily estimate the time, resources and cost of the product. Designing In Designing phase, we design the document we create templates, master page etc.We take approval of design like fonts size and style, list, table, numbering and look and feel approval is taken from concern person. Developing the Content We develop the content according to the product features and requirement. We analyze the product, run the product and write the draft according to the product. We create user manual, user guide, reports, and online help etc. We add a title, copyright, content, index, glossary, and appendix etc in the manual.This is actual content development phase. Editing/ Proofreading Editing is the process in which we test the creating project according to the requirement, and product features. We check the first draft through Technical Writer-editor, peer review or the technical review etc. In this phase, we check the technical part, grammar mistakes, figures, and format etc. Proofreading is the final testing of the project by checking proper layout, style and grammar mistakes etc. In this phase, we check the draft entirely. Our main purpose is to remove the bug from the draft, so that document is clear and understandable.To read more on proofreading click here. Publishing In this phase, we publish the document as online help, and print document etc. Print documents are the hard copy in which all the content may be in long sentences or paragraph, and screenshots. In online help, we add hyperlinks, and content is in short sentences. These documents are useful to end users to determine the exact use of the product. Maintenance Maintenance is the process in which we add updates, create versions after modification in the project. When a new product comes into the market, the user manual is updated according to the added new feature. Companies also spend cost in creating Support Centers for enhancing user satisfaction.
Before you foray into technical writing
How to start as a Technical writer So you want to start as a technical writer/Information Developer, I will try to answer few questions, I was searching when I decided to embark on this journey. Career opportunities Technical writers find career opportunities in the financial, industrial, construction, electronics, automotive, medical, computer, biomedical, healthcare, agricultural and petrochemical industries.In IT industries, a growth pattern is very much similar to software developers. Do I have a trait to be an Information Developer? Unfortunately, most of the tech writer in the industry does not become tech writer by choice but it happens to them and many starts loving it and few change their way. Who are the people who change their way and why? A technical writer is expected to have great technical skill as well as writing skill i.e. exceptional command over language and understanding of technology and this is a very rare combination to find. Some companies depending on their requirement either hire a candidate with domain expertise’s and an average writing skill while some give priority to the language experts. New picking up trends are companies start giving preference to the candidate with engineering background with at least one language knowledge and domain knowledge with good communication skills. Although writing skill or technical skill for a technical writer is one of the most debatable topics on the different forum. I believe Students must have a command of the English language, and understand the basic principles of a composition including grammar and sentence construction and common sense (logic). Common sense helps to learn new tools quickly as well as it also helps to understand the flow usability of application which is also the main prerequisite for tech writers. So before you jump this bandwagon make sure you love to write and have a nick to learn tools and programs? If your answer is yes, then be sure you are choosing a right career. You can download the trial version of tools used by a technical author and try to get familiar with it. Above all correct attitude will help you to get your dream job. You can read about the qualities of a technical writer. Where to start? Which class to join classes and What to learn? Now you know you want to be a tech writer/information developer, the question is where to start? Which class to join to be a good technical writer and, above all, get a good paying job??? There is nothing like that if you get a chance to join directly any company without any training classes. Training classes are not a bad idea but starting directly is a great idea. I myself joined a class to become a tech writer but fortunately, I got placed before I complete my course? No, my institute does not have to do anything with my placement as I get it. It was my luck. So now you are considering joining a class to learn this skill. There are many classrooms and online courses are available. What should you learn? I hope minimum these things you should learn in any classroom. After completing the course you should know: Links to technical writing courses classrooms/online (India and International)
Technical Writing Course/Training Delhi (NCR),Hyderabad and Pune
Welcome, Information Developers Foundation is a premier Technical writing training institute not only in Bangalore but our students are from Delhi NCR, Pune, Hyderabad, and other parts of the globe. Technical writing is a fast growing sector in India and abroad. It creates the need for professionals delivering quality information. If you have the desire to make big in industries like IT, Pharmaceutical, Telecom, Aerospace etc. this course is designed for you. If you want to know about the technical writing we highly recommend you to read our “How to become a technical writer- Step-by-Step Guide“. In this guide, we have discussed almost all the questions spilling from the mind of someone who wants to know about technical writing? It is a comprehensive step by step guide. We have written the similar Definitive guide for the content writers and Business Communication. Career growth, the job opening is similar to software developers and engineers. For salary survey of technical writer 2012 click here The salary survey of Technical writers 2017. Information Developers Foundation is a premier institute of online technical writing in Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad offering Diploma in Technical Communication and along with many other customized courses like Content writing and Blogging. Information Developers Foundation (IDF) is pleased to announce its Highly paid accelerated Technical writing program commencing every first Sunday of the month. Visit our Technical writing Training page for more details. Who Can Apply: · Graduates/BE/MBA/Diploma · Professional with good English and computer knowledge. Our success rate is approx 100% just because our training method is inspired by corporate and by training industries. Our technical writing syllabus is the most advanced in the industry and the whole course is imparted by corporate mentor Rahul Karn. Apart from the course we also help our students to shine resume, prepare for the interview, and provide complete tips and tricks to outperform in the job interviews. Do you want to know what you should do before a foray into technical writing? To know more about course content, admission procedure contact us at- 07840841999 or log on to http://informationdevelopers.in/
Time Estimation Method For Technical Writing Projects
How To Estimate Time For Technical Writing Projects? Estimating time for a technical writing project is an art or craft that I do not know but surely it is one of the significant and core skill, yet most of the technical communicator find it one of the most daunting tasks because it relies on many conflicting, delicate and external factors. Why estimate time? Either you are a freelance or permanent employee if you can effectively estimate the time commitment required to complete a project, you can safely meet your clients’ needs while maintaining balance in your schedule. If you can’t do this, you won’t know how much to charge for your work or how to best schedule your time and wind up costing you time and money. Unfortunately, it is difficult but essential. With the spirit of sharing, I thought to post a few tips on what to consider while estimating time for the technical writing project. Nothing revolutionary. There are many sites and resources available, but it is difficult to say what is the exact method, probably that’s why it is an estimation. End of the day, it will be your experience which will make you the guru of this gyan. Pre Kick-off meeting preparationtime is important for freelancers to take into consideration. You can also consider the time required in preparing of the quote, MOU, negotiation time, preparation of the agreement. Know what you have to estimate before estimating you should be familiar with what you are giving estimation because sometimes documenting one menu may take one hour and sometimes it may run in many hours. Knowing the scope is the most vital part of the estimation. So do not forget to allocate time for meetings to evaluate project details. To conduct information-gathering meeting is essential for estimating, raise questions until you are sure you understand the application. It should be a red flag if a client or developer is not willing to define the project for you. Try to understand the difficulty of the project during your research. Have you worked in this domain earlier? Is it a simple topic or complicated? Do you know and have the knowledge of the tools which are required to complete the project. Give yourself permission to have a greater learning curve than for projects similar to your past work. Check the availability of the finished project, specification requirement docs, and other information availability? Also, find any existing document you have to update, or you have to do it from scratch, Are templates ready or you have to create? These are the small things you should consider before estimating actual writing time. Guestimate time for actual work-After understanding the complexity of the project and knowing the real number of windows and menu option make a high-level view of topics now you can guesstimate the actual time you will take to write. Keep in mind apart from the actual flow you have to write an index, appendices, and many definition and introduction. Also keep time for graphics, formatting, editing, and self-proofreading and generating output. Revision-Make it clear in advance with the client about the number of revisions the client keeps changing his or her mind or code allot time for each round. This avoids the endless cycle of minute detail changes that end up adding hours and hours to your total time commitment Buffer-This time cushion you when the unknown problem suddenly emerges like delay in getting feedback, hardware or software problem or your guesstimate deviate from the path, Extraneous Hours-This time is important when you have a very demanding client who needs you to revolve around them answering call writing emails remember all these takes time To learn more concepts of Freelancing visit www.informationdevelopers.in
Proofreading Tips for Technical Writers
Who is the proofreader? To understand the proofreading tips, let us know who is the proofreader?The proofreader combs through the work looking for any inappropriateness. These include punctuation, spelling, spaces, alignment, type font and style, and other minutiae. This can involve comparing the final copy with the final trail print. Technical writers and Self-proofreading Proofreading is one of the important skill technical writers must possess to excel in their profession. A good writer with self-proofreading ability are able to churn out accurate, clear, concise, flawless and logically structured document, it’s imperative that you review each word to check for typos, mistakes, context, and tone. Those little details really do matter! In several projects I had worked as a single writer or freelancer with no peer or editor around, in fact in my current project also I am the sole contributor and in that scenario, I have to proofread my own work, this is when I felt the need of good self-proofreading skill. So did some homework on proofreading and here is the weblog of it. I asked my friends on LinkedIn Information Developers group and I got some great tips thanks to Altaf Ahmed, San Xu, Carlos and Kranthi Kumar Kandagatla for their insight. To find out errors, you must know the type of errors that you do commonly. In this post, my main focus is on some common mistakes and methods to reduce them by self-proofing. Please also keep in the mind there is a difference between editing and proofreading. It is said that we should not do together, but I believe if you have the ability to do it together please go ahead. The first step I think is you should have a checklist of commonly made mistakes and make sure you do not repeat it again Go ahead make a checklist. Few entries for checklist currently spilling out from my mind are: Now you have a checklist available, but how to find your own writing errors which often occurs just when stress levels are highest and time shortest, writers minds resist identifying them as errors. Under these conditions, you will see only what they want to see because we are often blind to our own mistakes? Few popular and easy steps which work wonder to many will surely work for you as well. Allow some time to pass. This is one of the tips which is common to all who responded on Linkedin. Put the work aside for a few days or weeks before beginning the proofreading process. Read out loud to yourself. This is one of the wonderful tools, try it, you can find your many grammatical mistakes. Reading out loud will help catch missing words. It’s also helpful for determining whether a piece lacks clarity or if phrasing doesn’t sound quite right. Spell checks this. Spell check your document, the spell checker can do some wonder like: Identify misspelled words Find double occurrences of words Identify double capital letters at the beginning of a word Identify when a small letter precedes a capital letter Accommodate additions to the dictionary of unusual words you commonly use Beware spell check also cannot do many things, Like Find typographical errors that appear to be correct(horrible instead of honorable, be long instead of belong ) Point out grammatical errors(their instead of they’re, its instead of it’s ) Identify poor sentence sense and syntax Check all the links and cross references-Click on all the links and cross-references manually, see if they navigate to the proper location and not broken. Backward to forward-Start with the last paragraph first. Because you’re reading it out of order, you’re more likely to spot the typos and spelling mistakes Pause before you press Send- Take a long pause before sending the final draft, a pause can vary from hours to days. Avoid distraction– I personally like to proofread my work without any distraction, you can use a quiet location or earphones, the choice is yours. Proofread print-This is not eco-friendly and little expensive method as well but one of my close to heart method. A print version is also handy for making notes with a pen, crossing out excess verbiage, and changing vocabulary prior to implementing the corrections in a final version. Illustration/Screen check-Make sure you have used correct images and screenshots. —————————————————————— Response from LinkedIn Information Developers Group Altaf Ahmed • If you meant proofreading of our own work, for errors and bugs in our documents, then I would mention one method that I have learned from one of my projects.We can do a complete scan of the document for only spell checking, and then repeat the quick scan each time for checking graphics, links, grammar check etc. Though this looks to be a tedious and time-consuming process, however, can provide thorough results with correction of even minute undetected errors. San Xu • I always think it is best to allow some time between your writing and your proofreading. I proofread in soft copy. I admit though, that hard copies are more effective than soft copies if the writing contains MANY mistakes – this conclusion is drawn from my past experience as an editor. Kranthi Kumar Kandagatla • I agree to San. A fresh mind works efficiently for proofreading. I always take a day off after I complete a project. Come next day for proofreading. I prefer soft copy. Carlos Mills, • I also keep a list of commonly misspelt words to run a quick search/replace to save editing time. As we all agree, the writer should take some time off from the document first pass to avoid blind words or to avoid seeing what they are thinking and not what was written. Do you have some more tips to share? Kindly leave a comment.To know the difference between editing and proofreading.
Introduction to Help Authoring Tools- Robohelp And Madcap Flare
NEWS- Adobe Release Technical communication Suite-2019 Adobe released a new version of the technical communication suite. Last week I was introduced to it in a partner program and found it impressive. A lot of improvements are in the FrameMaker. Hopefully, this release will be a game changer for the Adobe and will make the life of technical writers easier. Professional writers will be able to generate output fast and will able to produce more customized content. Use this link to download free tail, join webinars and find yourself what is new in this release. It was fun to be the part of AdobeDay 2018 at Bangalore What is a help authoring tool? A Help Authoring Tool or HAT is a software tool used to create, manage, and publish all Online or Offline business-critical documentation. Example of HATs- Adobe RoboHelp, Madcap Flare, AuthorIT, HelpNDoc, etc. Help authoring tool are an integral part of the technical writer’s toolbox. I do not see it fading anytime soon. Knowledge of at least one help authoring tool is compulsory for technical writers and content writers. Basic features of Help authoring tools If you are new to the field of technical writing, consider reading our introductory guide for technical communicators. Input Help authoring tools obtain their source text either by importing it from a file produced by another program or by allowing the author to create the text within the tool by using an editor. File formats that can be imported vary from HAT to HAT, though they can include such formats as HTML, OpenOffice Writer, and Microsoft Word, and compiled Help formats such as Microsoft Compressed HTML. Output The output from a Help authoring tools can be either a compiled Help file in a format such as Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (*.CHM) or non-compiled file formats such as Adobe PDF, XML, HTML, JavaHelp, EclipseHelp and so on… Help authoring tools Beyond Help Most help authoring tools provide extra functions such as: Why do you need help authoring tool? Authoring and content reuse. Reduce Authoring time & Cost. Importing and Publishing. After a document is finished, reviewed and approved, we can quickly produce: List of Help authoring tools I can bet you will be surprised to know that in the market there are more than twenty help authoring tools providers. How many of them do you know, try to recollect the name before you proceed? Here is the list of more than 20 best help authoring tools : One of the best tools, recently RH-17 is released. This is one of the most widely used help authoring tools. You can watch the latest RoboHelp capabilities on our YouTube Channel. If I’m missing any help authoring tools, kindly let me know. Unbiased Comparison of Help authoring tools A downloaded trial version of all four software packages (RoboHelp, Flare, Author-IT, and HelpNDoc).Compared and evaluated them based on several factors including my personal experience with the program; program size; learning curve; user interface and usability; and bug encounters. Comparison Brief Before Comparison get sure your parameter because there are many parameters to compare like context-sensitive help, content management, Import feature, support workflow, price, hyperlinks, single sourcing features and more…. One of my clients, he was majorly concerned with the Simple features, Price, and support. Recommendation: You can learn more about the HAT comparison. Other good resources you can consider to read. Which authoring tools do you need? You are the perfect person to answer which tool is best for you. Before jumping to the conclusion or asking anyone about the best HAT, please do keep these things in mind. About Your Authoring Environment 1. What operating system do you use? 2. How many authors are–or will be–working on the project? 3. If the content already exists, what format is it in– (i.e., Word, FrameMaker, HTML)? 4. Do you use any Help authoring tool(s) y? 5. How familiar are you with HTML, CSS? 6. Do you have any budget constraints? (i.e., how much can you spend on a help authoring tool?) About Your Help System: 1. How will the Help be delivered? Will it be printed, installed locally on users’ machines, or delivered on the Internet or enterprise intranet? 2. Do you need to deliver your content in multiple formats–for example, print or PDF and HTML Help? 3. Do you have any special look and feel requirements? 4. Do you need to create context-sensitive Help? 5. What operating systems do your users use? If you identify your need, you will be able to choose your dream tool for online authoring. Learn RoboHelp by yourself RoboHelp is a very user-friendly tool to author and publishes in multiple channels. It is evolving with every new release. The time this blog was written Rh11 was the latest in the market. Adobe publishes a lot of free resources to teach you RoboHelp. RoboHelp should be on your resume. I find some useful resource while learning RoboHelp. Sharing it with you. Hope it will make your learning easy I have removed a few sites. Unfortunately, legends are retired now. (Updated on 21/8/2018). Peter is also retired, but he maintains his website. Map IDs in RoboHelp11 If you have Map IDs and not able to test it. RoboHelp provides a wonderful tool to check it. What is Map IDs All context-sensitive help files have each help topic assigned a Map ID number? The application developers integrate that ID into the application so that when a user presses the F1 button in a topic screen, the application reads the Map ID of the topic and displays the correct topic that corresponds to that Map ID number. Question: Before giving it to the developers how would you know if your Map IDs are working in a help file; if they are appropriately attached to individual topics and are pointing at the correct topics? SOLUTION: RoboHelp has a feature (tool)l for that called CSH (Context Sensitive Help) Test tool. To test Map IDs 1) Open the Toolbox by selecting View > Pods > Toolbox. 2) Double-click CSH Test icon to display the Context-Sensitive Help Test
Best 5 Technical Writer Metrics for Appraisal/Review
Best Metrics for Annual Appraisal/Review of Technical writers In the office, I hate doing three things firing, interviewing, and appraisal. Unfortunately, these are an integral part of people management and we have to live with them. Can we make the appraisal process stress-free? Through this post sharing my views on the appraisal process and the parameters to be considered while appraising technical writers. Hope this can help you to set your goal as a technical writer. This is a very vast topic to discuss, so this post is limited in scope and depth. Most of my HR friends admit that they never find perfect metrics or parameters for any role which can satisfy both employee and employer during the evaluation process. The surprising fact revealed, according to a recently released survey by the Society of Human Resource Management and Globoforce, an employee recognition company nearly half of human resources managers don’t think annual performance reviews are accurate appraisals of employee performance During Chanakya era (2000B.D) doctors would puncture their patients’ veins and let them bleed out in order to rid them of their diseases. Today we laugh at the practice of bloodletting. I’m sure our future generation will come up with some new formula (or maybe it is existing I’m not aware) and laugh at ours, but we have to face appraisal as it is one of the necessary evils of the company. Why I don’t like to do the appraisal? Few things which I never able to understand and still searching for answers. Do you have it? An appraisal is a very delicate issue, and setting detailed, measurable, holistic, and well-considered objectives, in the beginning, is very critical. The following are samples of rating factors and example standards taken from a variety of sources for a technical writer. Please feel free to combine or modify them to fit your needs. The below list is indicative only, however, if you can be specific and tailor expectations and results to custom fit your team, by all means, that is the perfect way to go. The toughest part is coming up with specific and correct ways to measure these parameters, those are very much variable by the organization and role. Broadly dividing the attributes into four competence: Task/Core/Project execution Competence Knowledge/Functional competence Behavior competency Communication Skills – Oral communication/Body Language– The effectiveness of written communications (emails, status reports…) Self Development – Enhancing Product and Domain knowledge– Training and development (passionate about continuous learning) Management competency Each of the above parameters can be given low to high ranking, which can be appropriately tweaked as per the seniority of the writers. For example, for a Junior writer, Management Skill maybe 5 or 10, while for a Doc Manager it can increase substantially. Let us make a culture where we sit to discuss regularly how to improve and avoid waste basically effective retrospective culture. Where is customer satisfaction? Ooops!!! I might be missing many, Please let me know in the comment.
Top 15 tips to consider before cost estimating the freelancing work
How to estimate the rate for freelancing writing projects? Undoubtedly freelancing gives you priceless freedom of working and choosing your type of work, boss-free life, work from anywhere but it brings a lot of responsibilities and should be done with the discipline to be your own boss. My first triage with cost estimation as a consultant: The year 2008, my client asked me how much you will charge? Hmm, I can complete this work in 1.5 days and I m earning 30k/mo so 1k will be the correct figure. If I ask for more he may not give this project to me and finally, after deep thinking I quote INR999. Do you think it was the correct approach? NO-It was a disaster even he sign 5 more projects with me. To estimate the per hour rate for a freelancing project is one of the trickiest questions that come to our mind before taking any consultancy project? Continue reading otherwise your situation will be something like mine Not only in technical documentation, but you also face similar trouble in any freelancing work. In this blog post, I have written about the significant challenges and solutions for freelancing cost estimations. Share your experiences about cost estimates in the comment section. How to estimate the per hour rate for freelancing technical writing project is one of the tricky questions that come to the mind before taking any technical documentation project. Not only in technical documentation, but you also face similar trouble in any freelancing writing assignments like content writing, medical writing, and blogging. In one of my blog posts, I have written about the significant challenges of freelancing. Read the post before you foray into technical writing. In our content charcha (webinar) we recently invited Scheely to talk about her journey of freelancing. You can enjoy the recording of the webinar. Yes, there are many parameters which you should take into consideration before you fix your freelancing price. Pricing is one of the crucial aspects of any right business price that can win or lose you a project. Read “Pros and Cons of Contract Technical Writer Work” consider the points mentioned in it before doing any math for your rate. Math for calculating the hourly price for content freelancing work Simple maths you can do is take your monthly gross salary before deductions, round it up to an even number, and divide by 176 (the average hours per month,22×8). Suppose you want to earn INR 100000/month. In this case divide 100000/176=568.18. So, you should never ask anything less than INR 750 after negotiation you can quote a minimum INR 600. I will suggest quoting INR 1000 because you cannot work for 8 hours and many unseen issues can do your math wrong. Keep reading to know those unseen issues. By now your freelancing resume is ready and shortlisted by the client. If you want to learn about freelancer resume consider reading. Hope you get a rough estimate but before finalizing the rate consider the few points also. Points to consider for estimating the freelancing price of writing work- You can get good freelancing work from the website like Upwork, e-lance,freelancer.com, etc. You can also contact agencies like Technowrites, Commit, ibruk etc. I got my first work through my friend Jeno Joy who was working with Dots consultancy in Mumbai (W). His company was in need of a freelance content writer and my journey started. It was the year 2008. Conclusion In freelancing it is also very important to estimate the time. If you have a correct estimation of time, you very quickly calculate the cost. Do not forget to fix the payment terms and conditions like advance and full payment duration. The client may ask for GST and invoice. So be ready with all these. Acceptance criteria and definition of done should be clear. How the quality of content will be measured and how many times you will rewrite the content should be clear during price and time fixation. Read how to estimate the time for a freelancing writing project. Always keep adjusting your fee, after all, you deserve increment:-). I’m eager to listen to your freelancing story please share in the comment.
16 Major Challenges of Freelancer
Challenges of doing Freelance Content Writing Freelancing is the best way to be your own boss and manage your life the way you want it to be. The sky is the limit in freelancing and every opportunity has its own challenges. In this post, I’m discussing the pros and cons of freelancing as a content professional based on my personal experience. I believe pros and cons are the respective words, what are pros for me can be cons for you and vice verse. It is up to you decide what is going to be pros for you and cons. Most of us believe that staying home and working is the best job in the world. When you decide to work from your home there will be good and bad things about it, but there are good and bad things when working in a brick and mortar office too. Things will not always be smooth and problem free, that is just part of life. List of pros and cons I can remember doing contract/freelancing For technical writing /content writing service and training contact Information Developers Foundation, New Delhi.Call 7840741999
Information Developers Resume/CV
How to Improve Technical Writer Resume/CV I saw this interesting and informative image “Difference between BioData, Resume, and CV” circulating on Facebook and thought to share with my friends and readers of this blog. One more view on the difference between Resume and CV:RESUME: Summary of your skills, experience, and education. It is mostly used to grab a job in the private sector. Usually contains descriptions of all positions held on the document and is therefore 1-2 pages long. Moreover, USA & Canada normally expect a RESUME from you. CV: The more detailed synopsis of your educational and academic background as well as teaching and research experience, publications, presentations, awards, honors, affiliations and other details, therefore is 2+ pages long. Popularly used in academia. Geographically also, UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia & Africa expect a CV from you. For a technical writer’s resume is always considered as a sample of work so take extra care while writing and sending it to the employer. Ultimately it answers the question of your employer “Why do I want to hire you today?” The popular myth is that bigger the resume better it is. I differ from it. Primarily employers are interested to know do you have the necessary skill set, experience, and qualifications to do the task. The rest of details are merely tribal stuff like hobbies, objectives, summary etc. I will be happy if I do not find these sections in the employee resume, it saves my time. So make it clear what skill you possess (DITA, RoboHelp, Framemaker etc), experiences and where you gained it (Name of previous employer with duration you stay there, a project undertaken, technology and domain you worked) and qualifications. Do not write long stories, Keep it simple, short and concise. The larger agencies tend to search for candidates using computers – keyword search of their database. Like using skill, role, year of experience and domain expertise so include these information’s properly but please do not go mad at it. Few more tips: For Technical writer Resume, contact www.informationdevelopers.in or call 7840841999