Northeastern's Technical Writing Program.

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by Koolcypher, Jul 4, 2010.

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  1. Koolcypher

    Koolcypher Member

    Hello fine members,

    Happy Fourth of July to all. Once again I turn to this board for some insight. I have a friend of my mine that is getting out of the military in about six months. He, like myself, has done IT Networking for the last four or so years in the military, as an intel analyst, he also holds a TS/SCI clearance. He wants to switch careers to either HR {recruiting} or Technical Writing. He had asked me to ask the members of the board a couple of questions, I told him to sign up and get an account and ask the questions himself, I doubt he will do that, so here it goes. For his Technical Writing degree he is considering either Northeastern University's online Teachnical Communications degree, or Chatham University Professional Writing degree. Which school, in your opinion, will create a bigger bang for his buck, both programs will cost about the same. Now for HR he is thinking of Penn State, again an online program, Penn State's MPS HR I think.

    Now onto the questions, is it a good idea to go into the technical writing field? I have not heard much about it, so I don't know much. He thinks that he could use his IT experience as leverage, as far as writing is concerned, he has done a lot of writing. Being Intel Analysts we get to write a lot, often technical "stuff". How doable is this approach? Can it be done?

    Now I said go for the HR degree, he can use the IT experience and become an HR recruiter for IT firms or the government, better yet I told him to get an MBA, however, he does not want to do an MBA entirely online. He believes that in order to get the true benefit of an MBA one has to do it in person, so the MBA is out, at least for now.

    Having both options what would you do, get the HR degree and do recruiting or HR consulting? Or get the technical writing degree and become a technical writer? Again, I had not answer for him, except for leaning towards Penn State's online MPS in HR. I think the Penn State name is luring and sexy :D, but that's just me.

    Again, thank you
     
  2. davesaint

    davesaint New Member

    Master of Science in Project Management: Northeastern College of Professional Studies

    See if he is interestedit the degree program I've been looking at. There are two specializations if taken that could take advanatage of his TS SCI Clearance. Geographic Information Systems and Information Security Management. For example, the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency is located in St. Louis. They are always looking for GIS people but have a hard time finding them because a lot of them do not have the TS SCI. There are contractors at the Defense Mapping Agency also (Lockheed, Northrop, and others). Just a thought.
    Dave
     

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