On Thursday, September 17th, members of the chapter met for some food and discussion about issues affecting technical communicators. The main topics were the job market and how students can prepare themselves for the profession. This post shares some of the thoughts and ideas given during the discussion.

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The latest issue of the Intercom is now available on stc.org. According to the description, here’s what this issue contains:

steps you can take to combat implicit age discrimination in your job search
how you can adapt the lessons of politics to your office politics
an exploration of moving from technical writing to marketing writing
a list of foundation [...]

We met this month using our usual mode: a telephone bridge provided by Quest Software, one of our sponsors. Our main topics of discussion were the October and November chapter events, a tentative program for the year, and polling the chapter members so that we can get your input into what’s happening in the chapter and [...]