FrameMaker Experience

[Beth Agnew]

In addition to finding volunteer projects as was suggested, you can grab 
yourself a bunch of unformatted text from Project Gutenberg's archive of 
public domain material. http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

You can then practice all your Frame skills while making a challenging 
portfolio piece out of it. You can do everything from choosing the 
template and style for the text to sourcing graphics for it.

Most employers don't much care how you learned FrameMaker (techwriters 
are supposed to be able to learn software products quickly on their own 
anyway) but what you can do with it. Showing them a finished book would 
convince them of your skills, and you can take credit for every bit of 
it -- even rewriting the content if you choose to do so.
--Beth

Beth Agnew, Professor
Co-ordinator, Technical Communication Program
Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology
Toronto, Ontario