Synergistech's advice on Competing

We're well-known for our candor, and welcome the opportunity to advise both candidates and hiring managers on the job market and in particular how to compete successfully for the best opportunities and resources. Let us know whether we've addressed your questions.

Synergistech's mid-2008 Job Market Perspective — a candid look at what motivates today's technology industry hiring organizations, whether and how to re-enter the workforce, contracting trends, where you can still find job stability and above-average compensation, and what to expect for the foreseeable future as a technical communicator in today's software industry. (August, 2008.)

Going rates for SF Bay Area Contract Technical Communicators — Synergistech's snapshot of Silicon Valley contracting rates (both 1099 and W2) for ten different types of technical communications services (August, 2008).

Trends in Technical Communications (panel discussion), East Bay STC meeting, March 1, 2007 — Speaker's Notes,

Synergistech's 2007 Job Market Perspective — our frank assessment of where the money is, contracting trends, offshoring, how to prosper from the eternal quest to do more with less, and how to respond to the software industry's demand that communicators be ever-more-technical

Dealing with Recruiters and Negotiating Compensation (April, 2006) — Slides, , and Speaker's Notes,

Tech Pubs Trends to Watch and How to Prepare (October, 2006) — Slides, , and Speaker's Notes, (reworked from a presentation to Tucson STC entitled "What's Shaking in SV")

Creating structured documentation with DITA — will you lead or follow?

We've got great jobs for those who can write both code and prose

Suggestions for building a 'developer doc' portfolio

Synergistech's resume gallery, showcasing technical communicators who are among the best we know at what they do

Improving Information findability with Zero Search Time help

Is the Job Market really THAT bad? (written in June, 2001)

The hows and whys of elevator speeches

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