Benefits of Membership

As the world's largest organization for technical communicators, STC membership offers many professional and personal benefits, including subscription to STC's award-winning publications, access to STC employment listings, invitations to educational conferences and seminars and much more.

According to feedback from recruiters, employers give preference to candidates who are members of professional associations. For them, professional associations are perceived as a recommended standard and the members are considered to be committed professionals who are up-to-date in industry trends. This is another excellent reason to be a member of STC France.

Other benefits of membership in STC France include:

• subscription to STC's award-winnning publications designed to keep you up-to-date on current trends, tools, and practices vital to the industry:
• Intercom, STC's monthly magazine
• Technical Communication, STC's quarterly journal
• access to STC France's job bank and to the STC's international job database.
• STC's annual salary survey which provides vital statistics on pay and benefits for technical communicators in the U.S. and Canada and STC France's annual salary survey which provides the same information for France.
• subscription to STC France newsletters and mailings
• invitations to educational conferences and seminars at reduced member rates (STC France chapter meetings are usually held in Paris)
• discounts on the STC Annual Conference, the largest technical communications conference in the world and receipt of Proceedings, a compilation of over 200 papers given at the conference
• the opportunity to join STC Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that address specific interests of technical communicators. SIGs include Scientific Communication, Consulting and Independent Contracting, Technical Editing, and Marketing Communications.

Your membership dues also help fund programs that are available to the community at large, including non-STC members. This includes:

• Competitions that celebrate the very best examples of technical communication, including technical publications, art, and online communication...
• Scholarships for students of technical communication.
• Fellowships that help bridge the gap between technical communication practitioners and teachers.

STC presents a unique forum for you to:

• exchange ideas and experiences with peer professionals
• inform and update yourself about tools and trends
• network
• find a job
• develop your career
• give a presentation
• volunteer
• receive recognition

And much more.

Attend Events

Workshops and presentations about tools, techniques, general professional information, and personal development are held throughout the year. Every Spring we organize a one- or two-day chapter conference and workshops with top-class speakers from across Europe.

To find out about upcoming events, see: www.stcfrance.org/event/calendar

You can also read about recent past events

Share your Experience

For members who would like to share their specialist knowledge or professional experiences, we offer an ideal platform for speakers at our meetings.

To give a presentation at a meeting, contact: president@stcfrance.org

Stay Up to Date

Our monthly newsletter provides regular community and industry news and is distributed to all our members and about 400 other technical communicators on our mailing list.

To join our mailing list, go to http://stcfrance.org/mailman/listinfo/stcfrance-connexion_stcfrance.org

Volunteer

Volunteering is an exceptional advantage for members. Those who choose to volunteer by joining the leadership team, for example, have an excellent occasion to practice professional skills and competencies – and even develop new skills! Other volunteer opportunities could be a survey of salaries, or updating the membership list, or joining in the organisation for the Europe-wide technical communications competition – to give just a few of the many examples.

To find out about volunteering, contact: president@stcfrance.org

Get Recognized

Recognition is awarded on two levels:

• to an individual member, for outstanding contributions to the community or for special achievements
• to publications, within the scope of the TransEuropean Technical Communications Competition

To find out about recognition programmes, contact: president@stcfrance.org

Why join?

You do not have to be a member to receive our newsletter, attend an event, give a presentation or enter the competition, but why not take the one extra step and become a member?

If you are dedicated to your profession, then demonstrate your commitment! Members pay reduced rate for meetings and events, but the gains are not only financial. Share your experiences with others and benefit from the special opportunities that are available only to members. Make an active contribution and help us to help the profession and the community.

For more information about joining STC, see http://www.stcfrance.org/join