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So, I went downtown (and got there early enough that I stopped for a snack beforehand) and met with the woman I spoke to yesterday. I got there early, she was on the phone, I sat in their little conference room for a bit. It was a bit warmer than comfortable, given that I'd played it safe and worn respectable (wool) interview clothes, though not shoes to match. It's clearly a blue-jean sort of office, but I didn't know that beforehand.
Bonnie asked me a couple of questions, including whether I prefer copyediting or proofreading. Then she gave me a proofreading test, then a copyediting test, then a test of proofreading using their version control system. The last was a combination, I think, of whether you can handle the (not terribly complicated) software, and basic HTML knowledge. They're using some kind of automatic file conversion system, which has weird ideas of HTML (it's ridiculously fond of the <br> tag, for example), to move a lot of pages into a database of some kind.
I think I did well. The only temptations I gave in to were pointing out that they'd used the wrong spelling of "principal" on both the manuscript and the page I was proofing in the proofreading test, and adding <html> and <body> tags at the beginning of the HTML document instead of deleting the </html> and </body> that were sitting at the end, along with a lot of other extraneous stuff (which the instructions warned would be there).
Bonnie said they'll let me know this week. She also told me they'd gotten 200 resumes, but I don't know how many people she called to come in. What I don't know is how heavy a copyedit they were looking for; I hope I guessed right.
Having done all that, I had some lunch, and went to Fairway to see what looked good. As I was checking out, I realized that my groceries looked ridiculously healthy, and incidentally vegan: scallions, carrots, steel-cut oatmeal, and tangerines.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Bonnie asked me a couple of questions, including whether I prefer copyediting or proofreading. Then she gave me a proofreading test, then a copyediting test, then a test of proofreading using their version control system. The last was a combination, I think, of whether you can handle the (not terribly complicated) software, and basic HTML knowledge. They're using some kind of automatic file conversion system, which has weird ideas of HTML (it's ridiculously fond of the <br> tag, for example), to move a lot of pages into a database of some kind.
I think I did well. The only temptations I gave in to were pointing out that they'd used the wrong spelling of "principal" on both the manuscript and the page I was proofing in the proofreading test, and adding <html> and <body> tags at the beginning of the HTML document instead of deleting the </html> and </body> that were sitting at the end, along with a lot of other extraneous stuff (which the instructions warned would be there).
Bonnie said they'll let me know this week. She also told me they'd gotten 200 resumes, but I don't know how many people she called to come in. What I don't know is how heavy a copyedit they were looking for; I hope I guessed right.
Having done all that, I had some lunch, and went to Fairway to see what looked good. As I was checking out, I realized that my groceries looked ridiculously healthy, and incidentally vegan: scallions, carrots, steel-cut oatmeal, and tangerines.
julian_tiger is happy.