Career workshops for 2010!

Over the past few years, the use of technical communications has changed dramatically expanding into markets never before served!  This booming trend is offering opportunities and challenges to not only students building technical communication experience, but also to seasoned professionals for investing hardily in expanding their skills to fit the marketplace.

To address the unique changes occurring in our field, the New Mexico Kachina Chapter is offering a series of four Saturday career-enhancing workshops designed to provide a toolkit for technical communicators that they can use to package themselves for career building in today’s economy.

• 27 March 2010: Focus on the Labs, a panel discussion on technical communication opportunities at Sandia National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Please register for this event at http://www.stc-nm-kachina.org/Registration/March2010Reg.htm
• 22 May 2010: From Cyberspace to Workplace, a multi-dimensional presentation on how to use social networking and the web in marketing technical communication skills to employers.
• 18 September 2010: Steps to Successful Projects. Experts in project control and management of technical communication projects will present tips and tricks to delivering an on time, within budget, successful product.
• October 2010:Today’s Technical Communication Students. Current students take a look at how New Mexico colleges are preparing them for their technical communication careers.

All workshops will meet from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the venues noted on the calendar. Lunches will be provided. Costs will vary depending on the topic.