FW: Finding Local Tech Writing Job...

[<bchaney -at- ccprodesign -dot- com>]

Who did you contact?  Did you just send a resume to the company?  HR?
And what does YMWV stand for(I tried looking it up on google, and got a
bunch of p*** links =P) Sorry for all of the questions, I just want to
make sure I do thing correctly.

Brian Chaney

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Goldstein, Dan
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Subject: RE: Finding Local Tech Writing Job...


I did "cold contacts" via e-mail, fax, snail mail, and Web site contact
forms -- never via phone.  The idea was to contact every company that
looked
interesting to write for, hoping that they were planning to hire a tech
writer but hadn't started advertising yet. I contacted each company via
each
method (one method at a time) until I either got an answer or ran out of
methods. Only a small percentage happened to be at the right stage in
the
hiring cycle, but in a region with many hundreds of tech companies, that
was
enough.

YMWV: Your Mileage *Will* Vary in other regions.



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