Our Job Bank

by Ursula McCloy, Employment Manager

Our chapter's job bank page is one of the most viewed pages on our Web site. In the past year there have been several changes made to the Job Bank page to make things easier for both people looking for work and those looking to hire.

Employers can now post their own job postings from the Job Bank page by creating their own account and then logging in any time that they want so that they can post job postings for free.

Job seekers can select the "View Jobs" link to see a list of currently available jobs. To make matters even easier, our chapter's home page displays the date when the last job posting was added. The following is our most recently posted job. Come to the job bank if you want to see our other postings.

Job Details - Sr. Technical Writer

Job Term Information
Job Title:	Sr. Technical Writer
Employment Term:	Permanent
Salary:	TBD
Employer Details
Company Name:	iAnywhere Solutions, a SYBASE Company
City:	Waterloo
Province:	ON
Website:	www.sybase.com
Job Duties
SENIOR TECHNICAL WRITER Do you want to be part of an innovative team that is shaping mobile and distributed computing technology? iAnywhere Solutions, Inc., a SYBASE company, is currently looking for a Senior Technical Writer with a strong technical background to join its documentation team in Waterloo, ON. You will document SQL Anywhere Studio, the market-leading data management and synchronization technology for mobile, embedded and small & medium business environments. You will be writing complex material for an audience of database administrators and programmers, and so programming experience or other strong technical background is preferred. Responsibilities Write new material as well as update and maintain existing material. Write conceptual information, user procedures, reference documentation, examples and code samples, as well as produce professional quality graphics. Extract information and grasp complex technical concepts by interviewing developers and by experimenting with software. Work as part of a team, writing in a common style, and working with other writers to develop and document guidelines and procedures. Write in a single-source XML environment for target outputs including both HTML-based and page-based formats.
Qualifications & Experience
Requirements University honours degree Several years experience in the software industry Experience with the full lifecycle of commercial software documentation Preferred skills Experience using relational databases Experience with multiple operating systems Experience with source control software Experience with data access technologies such as ADO.NET, ODBC, or JDBC Knowledge of an object-oriented programming language such as Java, C++ or a .NET language Computer science training

Conclusion

Whether you are an employer or a job seeker, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

About Ursula McCloy

As a literature grad and a bit of a software Luddite, Ursula wasn't sure how she'd like the world of technical writing. It's been eight years since a friend offered her a contract to copy-edit some software guides, and she hasn't looked back. She is currently employed with The PEER Group Inc., where she has tried her hand at just about everything—end user and developer level software docs, QA, UI design, marcom, and internal communications. Outside of work Ursula enjoys gardening, cooking, bicycling, beaching, and being a mother to a three year.

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