Jobs in Vancouver, BC area: permanent and contract

[R A Bailie <rahel -at- BRIDGERECRUIT -dot- COM>]

Fellow techwhirlers,

Aside from my principal job as a technical writer, I work part-time as a recruiter
for Bridge Information Technology, recruiters specializing in placements in the
high-tech industry. My goal is to change the way recruiters treat tech writers, to
get across the message that technical communication is a profession as diverse,
complex, and specialized as any of the other professions they hire.

So, with Eric's blessing, here is a list of openings for technical communicators and
related positions, both contract and permanent, with our clients:

* CONTRACT: Team leader for small tech writing group with a company in
telecommunications field. Print and on-line help, some marketing communications.
FrameMaker, RoboHelp, Illustrator. IMMEDIATE.

* CONTRACT, POSSIBILITY OF PERMANENT: Senior writer, eventually to become team
leader of a documentation group of 3-5 people. Style should be coaching, mentoring
rather than authoritarian. Must be comfortable in high-tech, internet technologies.
Must have worked through a number of product release cycles in the software
industry. Competitive salary, stock options.

* PERMANENT: Junior writer with 1-3 years of experience. Write, edit, design, and
produce graphics. Must be comfortable in high-tech, internet technologies.
Competitive salary, stock options.

* PERMANENT: Product Training Group Operations manager. Responsible for set up,
operation, and development of several training centres, local and remote.
Responsible for vision, administration, evaluation, recruitment. Min. five years
experience in related field; management, training experience.

* PERMANENT PREFERRED: Intermediate software instructors for high-tech company.
Deliver training courses to internal and external audiences, develop and improve
course materials and delivery. Occasional travel. Some adult education background
and experience in training delivery. Macintosh, Windows 95/NT knowledge. Basic
networking knowledge. QuarkXPress, PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop.

* PERMANENT PREFERRED: Course designers. Design, write, edit, maintain training
courses. Develop templates and standards in conjunction with instructors and other
stakeholders. Instructional design a must; teaching experience a bonus. Good project
management, communication skills. MS Word, FrameMaker.

* CONTRACT: Intermediate or senior technical writer. Write and revise manuals to
reflect new technologies in documentation for developers. Experience in developer
tools/API documentation, comfortable with database concepts, object-oriented
programming concepts. AUGUST.

* PERMANENT: Senior technical writer for growing documentation group in large
telecommunications company. Basics of networking. Mainly print-based, currently some
prep for CD-ROM, going to alternative document delivery methods. Word, FrameMaker,
CorelDraw.

* PERMANENT: Data Manger. Knowledge of database management and Access 7 in a Windows
97 environment.

For more information about any of these positions, please contact Rahel Bailie at
(604) 837-0034. Note that generally, employers are not willing to relocate
candidates.

Resumes of technical communicators at all levels welcome. Send to
rahel -at- bridgerecruit -dot- com with attachment in Word 6 or RTF format. Please name file
with family name, not "resume.doc".

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Bridge Information Technology Inc, Vancouver, Canada
Office (604)739-4383 * Cell phone (604) 837-0034 * Fax (604)736-7453
http://www.bridgerecruit.com

Recruiting and contracting/consulting, specialising in software/hardware
people and technical communicators for I.T, Yr 2000 and high-tech clients.
Associates in Canada, South Africa, USA, U.K. Australia & New Zealand
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