Benefits

Each year, the Competitions Committee tries to reduce the workload for each judge by recruiting more judges than in previous years. This year, we would like to increase our judging ranks even more, to further reduce the workload for everyone involved. Increasing the number of judges brings more collective experience, wisdom, and energy into our judging process.

If you are wondering what you'll gain from serving as a judge, consider these benefits:

• First and foremost, the judging experience provides you with the opportunity for professional growth. By evaluating the work of others, you can gain new strategies and insights into your own work.
• The dialogue that occurs at Consensus Judging may challenge or validate your views and even renew enthusiasm in your work.
• Judging can broaden your experience by exposing you to different ways of documenting products.
• Judging can provide you with an awareness of what the industry's leaders are doing.
• Judging enables you to meet other technical communication professionals who may continue to serve as valuable resources throughout your career.
• Most important, judging helps keep our Competitions and STC chapter strong. A strong STC gives our field greater visibility and purpose, and each of us can benefit from that.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask one of the competitions contacts.