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 Posted: Wed 10:50, 23 Mar 2011 Post subject: listings will also show a nike air max chaussures |
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Those same listings will also show a tendency for degree-only positions to be in firms in commercial fields such as retail,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] medicine, or insurance, where the data to be read is internal documentation not intended for public consumption per se. Such listings, specifying a single proofreader to fill a single position, are more likely to require a degree as a way of reducing the candidate-pool,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but also because the degree is perceived as a requirement for any potentially promotable white collarapplicant. Experience is discounted at the outset in preference to a credential, indicating a relatively low starting wage appropriate for younger applicants. In these kinds of multitasking desktop-publishing environments, Human Resources may even classify proofreading as a clerical skill generic to literacy itself. Where this is the case, it isn't unusual for proofreaders to find themselves guaranteeing the accuracy of higher-paid coworkers.
By contrast, printers, publishers, or advertising agencies hiring directly (not through an agency) tend not to specifically require a degree. In these professionally demanding single-tasking environments,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] the educational divide surrounds the production department instead of the company itself. Promotion is rare for these proofreaders because they tend to be valued more for their present skill-set than for any potential leadership ability. They are often supervised by a typesetter also without a degree, or an administrative manager with little or no production experience who delegates day-to-day responsibilities to a typesetter. It follows that such listings tend to stress experience, offer commensurately higher rates of pay, and include mention of a proofreading test.
Proofreader applicants are tested primarily on their spelling, speed, and skill in finding errors in sample text. Towards that end, they may be given a list of ten or twenty classically difficult words and a proofreading test, both tightly timed. The proofreading test will often have a maximum number of errors per quantity of text and a minimum amount of time to find them. The goal of this approach is of course to identify those with the best skill-set. The problem is that those applicants with the best skill-set may be unwilling to make full use of it at the wage offered. In other words, artificially difficult tests tend to produce overqualified candidates. Such candidates, once hired, may consider that they have already done a considerable part of their job merely by having demonstrated their qualification for it. (A variation of this problem is that proofreader resumes are often subject to intense scrutiny for the slightest error of typography,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] formatting, and language. The attrition rate necessarily bestows a special status on surviving applicants, whether the hiring manager realizes it or not.)
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