New vacancy: #4543 Senior Technical Author, Reading, £60K-£80K

Our client is looking for a senior Technical Author to join its small Technical Publications team. The company offers flexible hours (although it is a full-time role) and the option of working from home for part of the week. The team creates documentation for end users and administrators that enables them to install, configure, and… Read more »

Is there gender bias in your Technical Author job advert?

Simon Morisawa-Bostock pointed me towards an article on gender bias in job advertisements (You Don’t Know It, But Women See Gender Bias in Your Job Postings): A scientific study of 4,000 job descriptions revealed that a lack of gender-inclusive wording caused significant implications for recruiting professionals tasked to recruit women to hard-to-fill positions underrepresented by women. Researchers… Read more »

So who wants a job as a technical author?

We’ve had a number of new vacancies for technical authors come in within the last few days – in the UK and mainland Europe. You can see them on our Technical Author Vacancies page.