www.cactusglobal.com Cactus Communications Pvt Ltd Mumbai : Associate Editor

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Cactus Communications Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai, Mumbai Suburbs : Sub-Editor/Associate Editor (Humanities & Social Sciences)
cactusglobal.com

Designation: Sub-Editor/Associate Editor (Humanities & Social Sciences)
Experience: 0 - 5 Years
Location: Mumbai, Mumbai Suburbs

Job Description:
Cactus Communications Pvt. Ltd. is one of India’s largest language solution providers for academia. The editing wing of Cactus is ISO 9001:2000 certified. Our client base of 9,900 spans 37 countries and includes eminent researchers, scholars, students, organizations, and academic journals. With an in-house editorial team that comes from diverse backgrounds, we boast a wealth of experience spread across science, medicine, the humanities, and other academic fields.

Role description
As a Sub-editor, you will be working in tandem with a Senior Associate Editor and will edit documents to ensure that they are grammatically correct, logical, well structured, and coherent.

As an Associate Editor, you will be primarily responsible for editing manuscripts to make them ready for publication. This involves ensuring that a document is grammatically correct, logical, well structured, and coherent. From time to time, you may also be required to comment on the content of manuscripts.

Desired Candidate Profile:
Who are we looking for?
We’re currently looking for motivated editors to join Noesis—our humanities and social sciences editorial team. This role will provide an opportunity to work within a dynamic environment that presents ample scope for internal career progression in a variety of areas. Interested candidates must have excellent written-English skills and must be a post graduate. They must be comfortable with editing documents of various types—journal articles, presentations, speeches, reviews, theses, etc.—under tight deadlines.

Why should you work at Cactus?
Remuneration in keeping with industry standards
Faster and more transparent career progression
Biannual performance appraisals, leading to salary revisions twice a year for high performers
Performance driven environment with faster recognition

To take a 10-minute test and upload your CV, copy and paste the following link in a new browser window: cactusglobal.com/test.html

Location: Andheri (West)

Company Profile:
We are Cactus Communications, a company dedicated to providing high-quality written English solutions to clients worldwide. We began operations in April 2002 with a team of five, providing editing services; we are now a team of 170+, and our services span editing, transcription, education, research, and content development.
Cactus was ranked as the 12th most 'Exciting Emerging Company to Work For' in the NASSCOM Exciting Emerging Companies (EEC) survey, which was conducted in September 2008.

Website: http://www.cactusglobal.com

Keywords: B.A, M.A, M.Phil, Literature, Economics, English, Anthropolgy, STM Publishing, journal editing, Psychology, editor

[Guest-IJT]

Name : Roushan Chauhan
Email : roushanchouhan AT gmail.com
Designation / Skillset : NL Editor

Resume :
ROUSHAN CHAUHAN
Seeking assignments in the field of Multimedia in reputed organization.________________________________________
SYNOPSIS
A competent candidate with in-depth knowledge of Multimedia as an Editor. Possess an analytical bent of mind and strong problem solving abilities with a yearning for challenging projects, attaining professional excellence and Successfully developed projects during that duration.
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CAREER CONTOUR
MAGNA COMMUNICATION
Presently Working with production house “MAGNA COMMUNICATION” as an Editor Since March 2010 in Tilak Nagar, New Delhi.
.WORK PROFILE
- FCP ( Final Cut Pro), Edius Pro (Canopus) Liquid & Pinnacle , Live Type etc
- Adobe Photoshop, After effects & Coral Draw etc
- Add Films, Corporate Films, Documentaries, Events, Avs, Promo, Music Videos, Fiction & Non-Fiction etc
YASHTIKA FILMS
Worked with “YASHTIKA FILMS STUDIO” as a freelance Editor for upcoming project called SURSANGRAM (non fiction)
DIGITAL CUT STUDIO
Worked as an Ass. Editor Under Shivendra Kumar Jha in “DIGITAL CUT STUDIO” for One years in Laxmi Nagar, New Delhi. For Verification +91-9910093747
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SCHOLASTICS
- Grade 12 from S S Inter Collage (UP)
- Grade 10 from S S Inter Collage (UP)
Well versed with MS-Office, Windows 98 / 2000 / XP /I-Mac/ Mac-Pro
________________________________________ EXTRA CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
- Grade ITI From “R.K MISSION” West Bengal ( Electrical Trade)
- Computer Course “Advance Video Editing and After SFX ” from “NIFFA” (National Institute Film & Fine Art) West Bengal.
- Computer Basic Course CCA, DCA, & DTTP from “COMWARE COMPUTER EDUCATION” West Bengal.
- About Data Base MS word, Excel Power point, Windows, MS Dos, Internet operating, Coral Draw, Adobe Photoshop & PageMaker etc.
________________________________________ PROJECTS
SERIALS
- Edited one episode of Gonu jha Offline.
NON-FICTION
- Edited 10th Episode of Sursangram for Mahua TV in Mumbai
TELE SHOPING
- Edited 15th Episode of Adbhut Jyotish Samadhan for India News
CORPORATES
- Av for Muni International School
- Av for Cosy MTS Infratech
- Av for (TBSL) Times Business Solution Ltd.
- Av for ULK Greens Jaipur
- Av for Rejuvenation Centre
- Av for Richmondd Global School.
- Av for Airport Authority School
DOCUMETRIES
- My Game is Beautiful Documentary for NGO.
- The Cruelest of the Month.
- Cycle Rally.
EVENTS
- Save the Tiger
- Wild Life
- Swymvar for Times of India Group
ADD FILMS

- Cosy MTS for Brahma city pushkar
- Cosy MTS for Chaksu
- Cosy MTS for Jaipur
- Cosy MTS for Gokul Dham Vrindavan
- ULK Greens Jaipur for DG Cable
- Cambridge International School
- Bawarchi Delight
- Pind Balluchi Restaurent for Patana
- 4Nine Mobile 30sec for Star News
- 4Nine Mobile 15sec for Star News
- 4Nine Mobile 10sec for Star News
- Poly Gold PVC Pipe 30sec
- Poly Gold PVC Pipe 15sec
- Poly Gold PVC Pipe 10sec
- Western Union 30 Sec for Mahua TV
ALBUMS
- Sirdi Ke Sikander (Sai Bhajan)
- Yaad Teri Aayee (Punjabi Musical Album)
- wwwbaba.Jay paras.com
- Sai Bhajan
- Bihari Mane Jija Ji (Bhojpuri Album)
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KEY STRENGTH
- Hard Good Listener & Self Motivated
- Sincerity Towards Goal
- working, Discipline & Punctual
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Date : / /
Place : Delhi ROUSHAN CHAUHAN
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[Guest]

Monica Anand
E-mail : mon.monicaanand AT gmail.com
To acquire a copy editing position in the editing domain of any lead organization and use the skills I have achieved throughtout my work experience to add value to the company.
Education
- MSc. in Biotechnology
[2006–2008] – 75.4%
Mahaveer Jain College, Bengaluru
- BSc. in Biotechnology
[2003–2006] – 77.8%
Mahaveer Jain College, Bengaluru
- Subjects studied : Cell biology, molecular biology, microbiology, animal, and agriculture biotechnology. Biochemistry, genetics, fermentation, and dairy technology. Cell-culture techniques involving animal and plant cells, genetic engineering and plant tissue culture.
Qualification summary
- Familiar with standard reference styles like Chicago manual of style, AP and Vancouver reference styling.
- Experienced in editing both online content and offline content.
- Editing and proof reading editorial content like journals, interviews, essays, promotional materials, newsletters and other article types for errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar.
- Adhering by the style guidelines and making sure the editorial content match these guidelines, also experienced in customized editing for specific clients.
- Recommending improvements in all editorial materials. Writing author queries wherever necessary and following-up with author comments.
- Checking consistency, readability, facts and references provided by the authors.
- Following a set format for journals like article title, abstract, key words, title headings, table and figure headings and reference styling and for other editorial pieces like book reviews, research watch papers, etc.
- Familiar with UK/US spellings and proof correction marks for offline content.
Professional experience
Macmillan Publishers, Bangalore-- Worked for 10 months as an assistant copy editor for Palgrave macillan.
Few journals that I was responsible for :
- Journal of Operational Research Society
- Tourism and Hospitality Research
- Feminist Review
- Urban Design International
- Journal of Medical Marketing
- Journal of Commercial Biotechnology
Further information on the journals handled by my team is available on the official website of Palgrave Macmillan.
Highlights/Achievements :
I was chosen to be part of the editing team for the new journal in Palgrave Macmillan, the Biosocieties, which explores political, social, and ethical implications for the developments happening in life sciences and biomedicine.
I have also been exposed to new article types introduced by our clients, for example guest editorials, research watch papers, legal updates and also have handled effective off-line editing of JORS.
UBM Medica, Bangalore---Currently working as a copy-editor (10 months)
Responsibilities :
- Edit and proof read articles, product monographs, posters and flipcharts.
- Structure articles according to the house style and interact with designers to make corrections.
- Ensure articles are published on time and send queries to author in case of major corrections.
- Make suggestions and improvements in the article.
- Cross check facts, references and quotes.
- Check grammar, spellings and punctuations.
- Write poster and patient education content.
Highlights/Achievements :
I have written contents for flipcharts and posters and medical calendars (diabetic and neuropathic calendars).
I have also written and edited patient education flipcharts for doctors, patients and other scientific community.
CD transcriptions, that involves reproducing various product reviews and doctor opinions in form of a write-up.
Summer projects and vocational studies
On-job training in Immunology
At Jain institute of vocational and advanced studies, Bengaluru
- Responsibilities : Trainee
- Duration : April 2006(1 month)
- Description : Recognizing blood types, cross-reactions, agglutination, and precipitation reactions. Immunodiffusion, ELISA, and monoclonal body studies.
- Certification awarded
Diploma in Genetic Engineering
At Jain institute of vocational and advanced studies, Bengaluru
- Responsibilities : Trainee
- Duration : January – May 2005(6 months)
- Description : Studying nucleic acids and their forms, engineering the DNAs for various purposes like treatment of Genetic diseases, enhancing the production of important bio-products.
- Certification awarded
Diploma in Plant tissue culture
At Jain institute of vocational and advanced studies, Bengaluru
- Responsibilities : Trainee
- Duration : January – May 2004(6months)
- Description : Maintenance, culture and monitoring plant cells under in vitro condition, for example, anthers, seeds, roots, and stems. Also studying somatic embryogenesis, abnormalities and metabolite production in plant cells under in vitro conditions
- Certification awarded
On-job training in Industrial microbiology
At Jain institute of vocational and advanced studies, Bengaluru
- Responsibilities : Trainee
- Duration : December 2003(1 month)
- Description : Aerobic and anaerobic fermentation mechanisms. Factors affecting fermentation and production of antibiotics from microbial cells
- Certification awarded