Providing a Career Path for Your Staff
Providing a career path is important for the morale and professional development of your staff. Below are two examples of possible career paths proposed by well-known authors in the area of technical communication.
Information Development and Design Career Path
Junior (production assistant) and mid-level (information developer) positions, moving toward one of three possible senior positions:
- Expert information developer
- Information designer
- Project manager
Source: Carliner, S. May 2001. Emerging Skills in Technical communication: The Information Designer’s Place in the New Career path for Technical Communicators. Technical Communication 48 (2), 156-175.
Single Sourcing Career Path
Junior, mid-level, and senior positions in the following tracks:
- Information designer
- Information architect
- Information technologist
- Information analyst
Source: Albers, M.J. 2003. Single sourcing and the technical communication career path. Technical Communication 50:335-343.
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