Give me your technical writers yearning to breathe free

We've two clients, one in France and the other in Denmark, willing to hire US American and Canadian technical writers who have the skills they need. Salaries are up to $150,000 pa.

There are approximately 1,500,000 Americans of Danish origin or descent,according to Wikipedia, so this could be a homecoming of sorts.

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Wanted Technical Author, Cambridge, £25K-£35K

#2866 Technical Author, Cambridge, £25K-£35K + Benefits

This is an ideal job for someone who loves working in a fast-paced, innovative, expanding and successful organisation. Our client is a very successful software house based in Cambridge. It is looking for a technical author who can develop online Help, Web-based Help and embedded help for GUIs and APIs.

As you will be writing for database administrators and developers, you'll need to understand the concepts of database design. You will also be working with user experience specialists on GUI design and conducting peer reviews and editing colleagues' work. You also need to have skills in HTML and a Help authoring tool, such as RoboHelp.

Benefits include 25 days' holiday, BUPA healthcare, and stock options.

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Technical Author Jobs

Just thought I'd highlight three vacancies we're currently working on:

#2738 Technical Author, Maternity cover 9-13 months, NW London, £36K-£42K pa
Our client, a FTSE 100 company, is looking for someone to provide maternity cover for one of its technical authors.The job is a contract for 9 months, which may be extended to 13 months. It might be converted to a permanent job, if the current holder decides not to come back to this role.

#2737 Technical Author, Manchester, £28K + benefits
Our client is looking to a recruit a technical author to join its team. This international company is the leader in developing software for retail organisations. You'll be joining a team that develops user documentation for its main software product. You'll also be involved in developing new ways to produce the documentation, because they want to move towards a structured, component based (e.g. XML), approach to producing Help, training courseware and other documents.

#2655 Senior Technical Author, London WC1, £40K-£42K
Our client is looking for a quick witted technical author to join its documentation team. You'll be documenting a very successful financial software package used by people investigating financial irregularities.


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New technical author vacancies

We've posted three new technical author vacancies today - both contract and permanent.

We've also added a new self teach training course - RoboHelp X5 training. We'll be introducing a training course in RoboHelp 6 shortly.