CE-TCOM-3005 - Preparing Your Technical Communication Portfolio

Course Description

An essential component of a successful career in technical communications is showcasing your skills in a carefully prepared portfolio. Throughout this course, you’ll plan a portfolio that highlights your unique skills and brings together your most important work. You’ll walk away knowing how to construct a valuable professional asset that helps you put your best foot forward, demonstrating your process from planning through evaluation.

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Is This Course For You?

Whether you’re looking to start a career in technical communication or you want to add technical communication skills to your resumé to take the next step along your career path, this course will help you build a portfolio that displays your technical communication skills. This is one of the elective course options in the Technical Communication Mastery Certificate, but it can be taken as a standalone course if you’re looking to create a portfolio to showcase your strength in technical communication. Skills related to technical communication are in high demand in many industries including tech, health care, IT, education, business, and more, so adding these skills to your resumé can help give your career a boost regardless of your current role.

What You’ll Learn

An essential component of a successful career in technical communications is showcasing your skills in a carefully prepared portfolio. Throughout this course, you’ll plan a portfolio that highlights your unique skills and brings together your most important work. You’ll walk away knowing how to construct a valuable professional asset that helps you put your best foot forward, demonstrating your process from planning through evaluation.

How You’ll Learn

In this hands-on six-week course, you’ll create and evaluate a portfolio of your technical communication work. You’ll learn what components make up a strong technical communication portfolio so that you can create and evaluate these components with your own work. At the end of this course, you will write a short narrative of your work and create a documentation plan template.

Skills You Walk Away With

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify and create key components of a professional technical communication portfolio, including writing samples, documentation plans, and contextual narratives.
• Evaluate and select the most effective portfolio tools and platforms for showcasing your work.
• Develop a comprehensive portfolio design plan, including clear navigation, content organization, and industry-specific design considerations.
• Apply industry standards and best practices to curate and present your technical communication work effectively to potential employers or clients.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

• Technical Communications : Elective Courses