So what is Career Consulting?
In short, over the years I've served as a freelance editor, I've had numerous people come to me asking me to show them how to get started as editors and establish their own businesses. Though having a natural gift for error detection is important for an editor (and that's not really teachable because it requires a certain cognitive processing style), many other aspects that go into an editing business can indeed be taught and shared. This is where career consulting comes in!
A typical career consulting session, held over Zoom, will begin with some "homework" in advance: I will provide a short sample document that I'll ask you to edit for grammar and syntax (ignoring content). At our scheduled session time, you'll have that document ready and we'll go over your edits so you can get a sense of your strengths and areas for improvement. From there, we can either delve into an unstructured "Ask Me Anything" session (which could include questions about marketing, target demographics, types of editing in which you'd like to specialize, rate setting, policies, subcontracting, professional development, structuring in-person editing sessions, and almost anything else that could occur to you!) or I can lead you through aspects of the editing industry and freelance practice that I have found important.
Please note that the advice I give will focus more strongly on helping you establish yourself as a freelance academic editor. Working as an in-house editor for a publishing firm involves different processes and policies with which I'm much less familiar; additionally, in that situation you won't have to do any of the self-promotion that freelancers must do.
Each Zoom consulting session is $55 per hour, a fee that you could easily earn back with one academic editing project! Just send me a message through the Contact/Submit Paper page to get started.
In short, over the years I've served as a freelance editor, I've had numerous people come to me asking me to show them how to get started as editors and establish their own businesses. Though having a natural gift for error detection is important for an editor (and that's not really teachable because it requires a certain cognitive processing style), many other aspects that go into an editing business can indeed be taught and shared. This is where career consulting comes in!
A typical career consulting session, held over Zoom, will begin with some "homework" in advance: I will provide a short sample document that I'll ask you to edit for grammar and syntax (ignoring content). At our scheduled session time, you'll have that document ready and we'll go over your edits so you can get a sense of your strengths and areas for improvement. From there, we can either delve into an unstructured "Ask Me Anything" session (which could include questions about marketing, target demographics, types of editing in which you'd like to specialize, rate setting, policies, subcontracting, professional development, structuring in-person editing sessions, and almost anything else that could occur to you!) or I can lead you through aspects of the editing industry and freelance practice that I have found important.
Please note that the advice I give will focus more strongly on helping you establish yourself as a freelance academic editor. Working as an in-house editor for a publishing firm involves different processes and policies with which I'm much less familiar; additionally, in that situation you won't have to do any of the self-promotion that freelancers must do.
Each Zoom consulting session is $55 per hour, a fee that you could easily earn back with one academic editing project! Just send me a message through the Contact/Submit Paper page to get started.