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Job Search Info for the Silicon Valley, CA, companies
Subject:Job Search Info for the Silicon Valley, CA, companies From:Andrew Davis <adavis -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 26 Oct 1993 16:08:32 PDT
Laura, you didn't indicate an interest in finding work in the Silicon Valley,
but you may like to know that your skills would stand you in very good stead
out here (Northern California).
To find contacts for Bay Area employers, you can purchase STC's 1993 Bay Area
Networking Guide from Sonja Porter:
Sonja Porter, Literature Sales, 4610 Royal Forest Court, San Jose 95136-2024
W: (408) 463-4967, internet = porter -at- stlvm27 -dot- vnet -dot- ibm -dot- com
This document profiles over 150 employers of technical communicators, and
lists contact names, phone and fax numbers, mailing addresses, numbers of
writers, editors, illustrators, etc, as well as whether the company hires
contractors. It also includes details of over 70 professional communications
organizations, and ~10 tech-comm-only brokers/recruiters.
The NG's cost is $12.50 to STC members, and $15.00 to non-members. Please add
$1.05 for shipping.
The San Francisco STC also sells a general-purpose Job Search Manual for
$7.50 and $10.00 (members and non-members, respectively), also available from
Sonja. Please add $0.43 for shipping.
I hope that helps.
- Andrew Davis
President, San Francisco STC
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}From: "Laura M. Myott" <myottlm -at- CRAFT -dot- CAMP -dot- CLARKSON -dot- EDU>
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}Subject: Job Search Information
}Hello everyone,
}I am asking for some assistance. I am currently a senior at Clarkson University
}(in Potsdam, NY -- 30 minutes south of the Canadian border for the millions who
}have never heard of Potsdam) and will graduate in May 1994 with a B.S. in
}Computer Science and Technical Communications....
