Vacancy: Editor (Arts and Humanities) for Crimson Interactive Mumbai

28 November 2010
Vacancy: Editor (Arts and Humanities) for Crimson Interactive Mumbai
About Company

Crimson Interactive Pvt. Ltd. is an organization of member brands providing English language solutions to individuals and corporate customers in the Far East. Crimson's member firms deliver services in three professional areas: Academic Editing, English Transcription, and Translation. We have served more than 6000 clients and are proud to be amongst the top three editing players in Japan. Being a start-up organization, founded in 2005, we strongly promote new ideas and initiatives. Crimson comprises a pool of talented and focused individuals who recognize the essence of knowledge. We encourage open communication, constant learning, and being updated with changing trends. In May 2006, we acquired the ISO 9001:2000 quality certification. With our strength in India having reached 55 and over 200 freelancers operating all over the globe, Crimson opened its first international office in Japan on 1 March 2009. On 6 March 2009, our CEO, Sharad Mittal, was awarded the Indian Achievers Award for Corporate Leadership by All India Achievers Foundation. We also successfully partnered with Japan’s largest Academic Publisher, Maruzen, and Dai Nippon Publishing (DNP), the second largest publisher in the world for their editorial needs. For more news, please visit http://crimsoni.com/news.htm

Job Description

Editors always serve the needs of three constituencies: the author(s), the publisher, and the readers. All these parties share one basic desire: an error-free publication. To that end, the editor acts as the author's second pair of eyes, pointing out--and usually correcting--mechanical errors and inconsistencies; errors or infelicities of grammar, usage, and syntax; and errors or inconsistencies in content. If you like alliterative mnemonic devices, you can conceive of a editor's chief concerns as comprising the '4 Cs'--clarity, coherency, consistency, and correctness--in service of the 'Cardinal C': communication.

Key Responsibility

Edit and double check manuscripts to ensure an error-free text, meeting international standards of publication.

Subject Areas

• Literature
• Language
• Psychology
• History
• Political Science
• Education
• Sociology
• Humanities
• Law
• Media/Communication

Basic Requirements:

• Graduate or Post graduate degrees in any one of the above subject areas
• Good editing, writing, and communication skills
• Extreme attention to detail
• Client focus: on-time delivery and very high quality

Added Advantages:

• Master's/Post Graduate/Doctoral degree in mass communication/English
• Ability to follow a publication's guidelines (style manual, handbook, etc.)
• Good online search and information verification skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Selection Process:

Round 1: On selection, you will be called for a preliminary in-house test, lasting around one hour. We will test both your English language proficiency as well as your subject matter expertise.
Round 2: Qualified candidates will be interviewed within a week.

More information here.
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