Re: Temp agencies and job boards for local tech writers

[Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>]

You could try the #jobs channel on the Write the Docs slack team?
http://slack.writethedocs.org

-Tony

On Thursday, 14 April 2016, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- nuot -dot- com> wrote:

> We thought it would be easy (ha!) to recruit a technical writer/QA
> Specialist to work in Gaithersburg, MD (suburb of Washington, DC). We've
> posted the job so far on TECHWR-L and STC, and we've had three temp
> agencies work on it. Neither of the ads brought a response, and the temp
> agencies suggested only a few candidates  - most of whom didn't even
> approximately fit the job description.
>
> There must be hundreds of tech writers in the Metro DC area. We advertised
> locally to avoid responses from long-distance teleworkers, etc. Any ideas
> for ad sites and temp agencies in the DC area, or do we really need to go a
> national agency or job board to find someone local?
>
> TIA,
>
> Dan
>
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