Editorial sector offers lucrative career opportunities for people with good literary skills. Writers who have good command over multiple languages are in huge demand from sectors such as journalism, Internet blogging, book editing, teaching, etc. Writing and translation of articles into other languages is also on the rise. The scope for career growth is vast and there are also many intern roles which are usually given to graduates.
Another role which is growing fast in the printing industry is the role of translators. As some of the printing companies encompass different regions and countries, translation becomes critical. This provides opportunity for translators of different language.
A lot of people spend a ton of their time reviewing and editing their resumes, and too much of that time is spent on useless things like selecting special "resume paper" that no hiring manager cares a lick about. When you put together a great resume, what's on the page and what it really says to the hiring manager is all that matters. Hiring managers are just people who have proble...
Learning a new language is a passion for a few. They learn any new language so effortlessly and so fast akin to a newborn fish learn how to swim. Such gifted persons may very soon join an elite group of linguists called polyglots. Of course, many of us can only daydream to reach that level. Nevertheless, from time to time, you come across many sufficiently good reasons to learn another language...
The best way to integrate you into a new environment is to learn the language of the land. This axiom is true anywhere and it is relevant to any person preparing to live in an English speaking country. Learning English as a second language - ESL, enables him to take advantage of all the opportunities in the new surroundings regarding his education, job, or social networking. English is accepted...
Some people have the words and some people don't. For those who don't really have the words, hiring a writer makes a lot of sense. One doesn't need a degree to be a great writer, and many of the best writers never bothered to get one -- or they got it in an unrelated field. While most people can write, writing well is an underrated but very noticeable skill -- especially in its absen...
Proofreaders, in a way, are the first critics who apply the red ink on the works of any writer. That probably invited an exceedingly unkind comment from the great Mark Twain. The comment attributed to him goes like this, "In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made proofreaders." The very same proofreaders were probably there to proofread and correct the abo...
As a matter of fact, every saneperson living on this planet Earthis a writer-in-waiting. It needsa little more elaboration assome eyebrows may be raised in utter disbelief. The Bond that Binds A Book With Its Writer First,it is requiredto understand the nature of the bond that binds a book with its author. A book, ifone looks deeply, is a reflection of the knowledge, experience and/or the imagin...
If you do a search on the definition of essay, you may find hundreds of definitions and as many or more exemptions to make each of those definitions a suspect. For example, one definition says that an essay is always written in prose. Before you look twice at that definition you may come across an information that Alexander Pope of the eighteenth century, happened to have authored two great &lsq...
A great literary agent can do wonderful things for your career. If you don't use a quality literary agent, your book may never be picked up by a good quality publisher. Even if it is picked up, a quality agent is going to negotiate a far more generous set of terms for you. Of course, not every literary agent is going to work in your best interests, if only because some agents just aren't...
A lot of times you may want to communicate in a language you don't know and don't particularly want to learn. So it makes sense to hire a professional translator. When you want to have something translated by a professional, you need to make sure you're hiring someone who is actually qualified to do the job. In the modern world, there are tons of different ways to have something prof...
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