Technical writer resume example
A person in this job writes the manuals, help pages and API guides that explain how a product works. Below: an example to start from, and what 39 open postings for this work ask for today.
Alex Example
Technical Writer
City, Country · [email protected]
Summary
Technical Writer with five years of experience in writing, editing and translation. Strongest in API documentation, style guides and editing.
Skills
API documentation, style guides, editing, working with engineers, Jira, Agile, SQL
Experience
Technical Writer, Example Company 2022 – now
- Wrote and maintained 180 pages of documentation; support questions about setup fell by 28%
- Documented an API of 120 endpoints, each with a working example
- Rewrote the quick-start guide; the time to a first working call fell from 40 minutes to 8
Technical Writer, Another Example Ltd 2020 – 2022
- Moved the documentation into the code repository, so engineers update it with each change
Education
Bachelor’s degree, Example University 2016 – 2020
Example. The person, the employers and the numbers are invented; replace them with yours.
Tools employers name
Postings for this work describe duties more than tools. These are the tools they do name; put on the resume the ones you have used.
Titles employers use
Technical Writer; Senior Technical Writer; Manager, Documentation Engineering; Senior Technical Writer I; Technical Writer Intern (Summer 2027); Specialist III, Knowledge Base.
Make it yours
- Keep the form, change every fact. A verb first, what changed, one number.
- Use the posting’s words. The match checker shows which of them your resume lacks.
- Put the strongest result first. The resume review tells you what a first read finds.
Questions about a technical writer resume
- Which skills should a technical writer resume list?
- What the work consists of: API documentation, style guides, editing, working with engineers, Jira. Postings for this work describe duties more than tools, so use the posting’s own words for each duty and put a result next to it.
- How long should it be?
- One page for up to ten years of experience, two at most. The first third of the first page decides whether the rest is read.
- Is this example a real person?
- No. The name, the employers and the numbers are invented to show the form: a verb first, one result, one number. Replace every line with your own.
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