Hi Lee - If your resume still needs work, directioneering in Sydney is great for improving it. There is no doubt a similar company in Melbourne. As for tech writer placements, I'm ignorant of what's in Melbourne but in Sydney there's Tech Writer - contact Lyneve Rappell - or HCi - contact Julia Liu. They're both good companies and they get requests from interstate. Having a hot resume is key, I think, because job placement companies rely on them. And they add them to a database and search on them, so you want all the right words to be in there. Cheers, Matthew da Silva BA (Hons) MMediaPrac (Merit) Syd m 0434 536 772 | e journo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | w matthewdasilva.com | t twitter.com/matt_dasilva -----Original Message----- From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of leebadger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, 6 November 2009 1:25 PM To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: Employment: Ways to shout that I am looking for work in Melbourne Hello Everyone I have been a technical writer for 20 years. In that time I have had two jobs. Now I am looking for job number 3. I am not very practiced in the art of job hunting and am looking for advice. Specifically, are there a lot of unadvertised technical writer positions? How do you get to hear about them? Thanks Elizabeth ************************************************** To view the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field (without quotes). To manage your subscription (e.g., set and unset DIGEST and VACATION modes) go to www.freelists.org/list/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ************************************************** ************************************************** To view the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field (without quotes). To manage your subscription (e.g., set and unset DIGEST and VACATION modes) go to www.freelists.org/list/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************