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company logoAbelard Consulting Pty Ltd is a specialist provider of technical writing services, technical writer placement services, and training in technical and scientific writing.

Recruiting a technical writer ?

Documentation (technical writing)
Abelard Consulting provides the full spectrum of documentation services: from editing a single document written by others to managing fully out-sourced project teams writing user documentation of many types, in many media, and in many languages.

We have a large team of technical writers, editors, illustrators and translators for work you want to outsource. (Their experience ranges across finance, accounting, telecommunications, software, engineering and electronics.) Alternatively, our recruitment division can provide you with the documentation specialists you need for projects you want to manage in-house. [more]


Abelard Consulting and technical writing news

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  localisation and translation
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Recruitment
Abelard Consulting's recruitment division specialises in the placing of technical writers. Our service is unique in a number of ways. For a start, our consultants are themselves experienced technical writers and so are especially adept at accurately profiling job roles. Secondly, through our own longstanding documentation consultancy work we have built up a vast network of technical writers. Thirdly, our peer-to-peer assessment methodology — assessment of applicants by practising technical writers — gives us the edge in filtering applicants, that is, in seeing quickly who really does fit a particular role. Taken together, our approach is designed to give you, the client, a short-list that is the cream of the available talent. [more]

Courses
Our training division offers public and custom courses in general writing, technical writing, scientific writing, Adobe FrameMaker (structured and unstructured) and Microsoft Word. Early-bird discounts apply to bookings made at least two weeks in advance.[more]

Courses coming soon

Technical writing

  Melbourne, September 8–9   [Early-bird discount closing soon]
  Melbourne, November 3–4
  Sydney, October 20–21
  Brisbane, September 15–16   [Early-bird discount closing soon]
  Canberra, October 13–14
  Perth, October 27–28

Scientific writing

  Sydney, September 22–23   [Early-bird discount closing soon]

Adobe FrameMaker

  Brisbane, September 22–23   [Early-bird discount closing soon]

Structured authoring with Adobe FrameMaker

  Canberra, September 1–2   [Early-bird discount closing soon]
  Christchurch, October 6–7

Microsoft Word 2007

  Sydney, September 17–18 (Introduction)   [Early-bird discount closing soon]
  Sydney, September 19 (Upgrade)   [Early-bird discount closing soon]
  Canberra, September 22–23 (Introduction)   [Early-bird discount closing soon]
  Canberra, September 24 (Upgrade)   [Early-bird discount closing soon]

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Jobs
If you are looking for a technical writer position — contract or permanent — visit our jobs page.

Forum
Visit our forum page to learn about austechwriter, the email and web-based discussion forum for Australian technical writers.

Resources
Our resources page lists numerous online resources that technical writers are likely to find useful.

Links to technical writing sites

UK work

Intending to work as a technical writer in the UK? Visit Edissero, a niche technical writing consultancy and recruiter located in Surrey (just south of London).

Professional societies

Abelard Consulting encourages all practising technical writers to join a professional society, such as the Australian Society for Technical Communication (Victorian branch or NSW branch) or the Technical Communicators Association of New Zealand.

Table of contents from the training workbook for our 2-day technical writing course

 

  For more information, call 1800 601 116 (a free call).