CE-TCOM-3005 - Preparing Your Technical Communication Portfolio
Course Description
An essential component of a successful career in technical communications is having a thoroughly prepared portfolio to showcase your skills and the ability to discuss your skills and knowledge in an interview. Throughout this course, you’ll build, evaluate, and improve your technical communication portfolio and speak with people currently working in technical communication roles to get a better understanding of what it means to work in technical communication and how you can begin your career in this industry.
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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:
- Explain the components of a strong technical communication portfolio
- Create and evaluate these components
- Conduct an informational interview of a technical communication practitioner
- Participate in a practice interview for a technical communication position
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Technical Communications : Elective Courses