With elections less than a year away, the Congress have new job openings for stump speech proof readers. The pay will be competitive, and no formal qualifications are
required.
Job title : Proof Reader
Job No : #CM2013
Job Location : Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Job Description :
In this position, you will be reviewing drafts of Gujarat CM Narendra Modi’s
speeches. You job is to read the entire speech from a critic’s angle, and try and
locate any portion which can be found to be offending by personnel from the
media.
The next step is to pick each sentence from the speech, break it down further,
and look at it independently of the context of the entire speech from all angles to
see if any portion can offend any section of the society. We require a person with
a very good imagination for this role. This role becomes more challenging as the
Chief Minister prefers to speak extempore and uses the written matter only for
reference.
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Job title : Proof Reader
Job No : #Home2013
Job Location : New Delhi
Job Description :
In this position, you will be reviewing drafts of Home Minister Sushil Kumar
Shinde’s speeches. Your job is to spot the errors of the following types:
1) Delete inappropriate salutations in the speech like Shri.
2) Filter information which has to be kept confidential like the names of the
victims of crimes and remove them from the speech.
3) Delete sentences which appear twice in the same speech.
4) The proof reader needs to be proactive in anticipating errors which she may
never have encountered before in her career.
5) This role becomes all the more challenging as the Home Minister prefers to
read out from his script verbatim without applying his mind. So the candidate
has to be extra careful in screening out inappropriate content such as
background notes.