Training for the Future

With my senior year coming to an end, I have started the great job hunt. I will be moving to Las Vegas, NV immediately after graduation, so I have been trying to locate Technical Writing jobs available in the area. The three jobs that I have described below are all positions I am very interested in. They are located in Nevada, Illinois, and Texas. Having just finished my internship I feel that I am ready to step into any role that could be asked of me at these jobs.

The first company is Scientific Games, located in Las Vegas, NV. They are a technology company that specializes in lottery, casino, and online gambling software. They are looking for a full-time technical writer and only asking for one year of internship experience. The only one year of experience really surprised me because all of the other jobs I have found are asking for three plus years of experience. I did apply for this job because the description and company information interested me greatly. I think that with my degree in technical writing and my minor in computer information systems would be extremely helpful and useful for this job. I would also enjoy helping to create software manuals that would be used regularly and help with a product that is in high demand especially in Las Vegas.

The second company is a manufacturing company out of Lake Zurich, IL. They are looking for a full time Technical Writer to help with the product manuals and also the manuals used on the factory floor. I think that this job would be interesting and a place I could grow in my abilities. It is not with a software company like I originally set out looking for but I still think that it would be an interesting environment to work in and new for me. I enjoy new and challenging. Something that is a little different about this job is that it is an hourly full time position. This isn’t unusual for a technical writer to be paid hourly but it is kind of unusual that it is a full time position and not a part-time/contractor position. That would be a question I would ask during an interview, would it be a regular nine to five job or are the hours set different because it is hourly.

The third and final job I found is with a company called DISYS, which is an IT consulting service located in Fort Worth, TX. The company is looking for a full time Technical Writer to help create document templates, write work instructions, and help analyze existing and new documents. This is a computer company which I am interested in because it helps me implement my minor. However, this job does not come with job security because it is a one year trial bases hire. I feel like I could prove myself and show what an asset I could be to the company in that year but it is still fairly nerve wrecking.