Career Guide

Career Guide: "What is the relevance of all this to a B-school student? Writing is a skill that goes a long way in helping one achieve success. Many successful people have acknowledged this fact. As part of their work, managers have to prepare a lot of reports, lay down policies and procedures, and prepare proposals and plans. Today technology is overriding and there is hardly a company that is untouched by it. So somewhere along the way their will always be an interface with technology. Hence Technical Writing becomes relevant for them. This has also become more relevant as the medium of information distribution has evolved. Says Guru,' Today the delivery medium is Net-based or through CD-ROMS. The manager has to take full advantage of the benefits offered by these mediums in terms of audio as well as visual aspects of the presentation. So what the manager is doing is performing the role of a technical communicator'. He further emphasises, ' Knowledge Management and Knowledge Distribution are some of the hottest emerging areas. It is a little far away in India. But it will soon descend on us. Management graduates with knowledge of Technical Writing will be hot property'."