Assistant Editor Resume
An assistant editor works with online and print publication firms, media (television or radio), and content publishing companies. He or she is involved in a variety of tasks and is responsible for prioritizing tasks, and ensuring completion of projects within deadlines. Apart from this, these professionals also assign tasks to writers, review articles, and correct spelling errors and grammatical errors as well as enhance the looks of the articles by adding relevant pictures or additional supporting material like graphs, pie-charts, etc. In short, their job is to plan, organize, and present written material and graphics in the best manner to ensure the publishing materials meet a high literacy merit.
To work in this position, you must be truly passionate about writing and editing. Moreover, you must also demonstrate a good grasp over English, have unique creative ideas, and ability to present your thoughts on the paper. A concise yet appealing resume can open the doors to this lucrative career. An assistant editor resume must show excellent written and oral communication with great eye-sight to find and correct spelling and grammatical mistakes. As the job involves coordinating with personnel who contribute in the publication such as writers, reporters, and graphic designers, having interpersonal and coordinating skills on the resume are essential. For more assistance, you can always refer to the assistant editor resume sample given below and tailor your resume.
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Leonard W. Landreth
1095 Lakewood Drive
Rochelle Park, NJ 07662
Phone: 201-843-2846
Email: lwlandreth@freemail.com
Career Summary:
Highly-creative, organized, and experienced Assistant Editor seeking a senior position with an organization to use my expertise in publishing high-quality articles and blog posts matching with clients' demands for print as well as digital media.
Summary of Skills:
- Excellent ability of logging, project organizing, capturing, grouping, media management, refined editing, encoding, FTP posting,
- subscripting, researching and integrating SFX and temp music
- Skilled in finding and presenting stories that readers want to read
- Excellent interpersonal and editing skills, including storyboarding
- Extensive research abilities to present unique, vocabulary-rich and appropriate articles for readers in both print/digital medium
- Hands-on experience of researching topics, collecting data and assigning tasks to team members for timely completion of projects
- Strong proofreading, editing and writing skills, and ability to produce unique content for the given topic within minimal time
- Ability to manage references and permissions to avoid issues related to copyright infringement
- Capable of prioritizing tasks and completing projects in stressful environment to meet the deadline
- Proficiency in working with MS Office Suite, maintaining spreadsheets and basic knowledge of Adobe Illustrator software
- Ability to work in a team, and possess excellent organizational and communication skills
Work Experience:
Assistant Editor
Fair Publications, Rochelle Park, NJ
July 2016 - present
- Writing news and feature articles for both online and print media
- Proofreading and edit documents written by writers and reporters
- Coordinating with graphic designers, sales team and writers to ensure articles, news and stories are presented well
- Conducting online survey to identify readers' interest
- Assisting editors in developing marketing strategies
- Training writers on style guidelines
Assistant Editor
Blaze Media, Rochelle Park, NJ
May 2014 – June 2016
- Researched and developed contents for a monthly magazine published as “Life and Stress”
- Did storyboarding and got it checked by the editor before working on it
- Proofread and edited online and magazine contents
- Helped the marketing team in increasing magazine sales
- Participated in trade shows and learned latest trends in the world of publications
- Coordinated with marketing, designing and editorial staff
Assistant Editor
Informix Magazines, St Cloud, MN
February 2012 – April 2014
- Coordinated with the design team to decide magazine layout for clients based on their industry, and prepared graphical outlook of the same using software
- Collaborated with the team to complete copy-editing assignments on various topics before deadline with high accuracy
- Worked closely with the Chief Editor to develop a working knowledge of clients' preferred documentation style for the magazines
- Responded to clients or publishers' inquiries and give idea about articles
- Reviewed articles submitted by writers, and added applicable photographs using Adobe Illustrator 6 to make the draft look more enticing
- Regularly researched the trending topics and assigned the most popular topics to writers for posting unique blog content
Internship:
Writer cum Editor (part-time)
Elsevier Prints, St. Cloud, MN
February 2011 – January 2012
- Researched extensively for given topics and wrote articles for clients within deadlines to submit it to the editors
- Took responsibility to write on various topics, including business articles, local news, and educational topics as required
- Understood requirements of the subject and wrote weekly column post for local newspaper as supervised by the senior writer
- Proofread and edited written article to make it free from spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and false notions
- Wrote effective articles using simple/rich vocabulary depending on the targeted audience
- Coordinated with the content team to complete the deadline for the monthly magazine by writing short stories on various topics
- Worked overtime to complete editing and proofreading tasks
Affiliations:
- American Society of Magazine Editors – Member since 2012
National Association of Editors and Writers – Member since 2013
Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communication
St. Xavier's University, Rochelle Park, NJ
2008
Reference:
Available upon request.
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