Jobs in Pearson Education (Updated Notice)

Pearson Education intends to hire for various full-time positions in its Noida office. Someone from the firm will hold interviews next week (the week beginning 18 February 2013), in all probability on Thursday, 21 February, and Friday, 22 February. Candidates who have been awarded a Masters degree or will be awarded one by the end of 2013 are eligible to apply. Interested candidates should send me their CVs. My e-mail address is somnath_bs@yahoo.com.

The firm also wishes to create a pool of freelancers to work with them on a project-wise basis. Any graduate (including students pursuing courses who will not finish this year) with good language skills can apply. Please send me your CVs if you are interested in working as a freelancer.

Both categories of candidates will have to appear in an editing test that is tentatively scheduled to be held in the Department of English, Jadavpur University, on Tuesday, 19 February 2013. The test will, in all probability, start at 16:15.

Students who have completed this course in earlier editions may also apply for these positions.

Prospective freelancers will be encouraged to attend a briefing session that will be conducted by editors from Pearson Education on Saturday, 23 February 2013.

When you send me your CV, please use this subject line: "Curriculum Vitae - <first name> <middle name> <surname>" (and nothing else). This will help me sort the e-mails properly.

Please send me your CVs by Monday, 18 February 2013.

This post will be updated whenever more information is made available to me.

Location of Classroom for Design Classes

The classes on design will usually be held in the Project Room of the School of Cultural Texts and Records. This room is located on the third floor of the UG Science Building, being the last one in a corridor that houses classrooms and offices of the Film Studies Department.

The Saturday classes will usually be held between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

On Saturdays, the gates of the UG Arts building are usually locked. Students have to enter through the UG Science gate, which is located on the left immediately after the parking space. The large sign that says "UG Science Building" may be looked for. Students should enter through that gate, take the first set of stairs on their left and walk up to the third floor. They will see a small wooden door, usually open, that leads into the corridor where the Film Studies department is located. Students have to enter the corridor, walk down to the end and enter the room whose door lies directly in front of them.

Deadline for Submission of Book Fair Assignment

Students are requested to submit the assignment on the Book Fair by Monday, 18 February 2013. Those who have been unable to do this assignment may do another in its stead, the details of which will be announced at the beginning of next week.

Invitations to Join Blog

I have resent invitations to join the blog to the students listed here. They are requested to accept the invitations as soon as possible, since the invitations will expire in a few weeks. The students who have been re-invited are:

• Abhijit Dutta
• Abira Nath
• Ananya Adhikary
• Anindita Banerji
• Anuja Khatua
• Anwesha Rana
• Arnab Chakraborty
• Avinash Noel Antony
• Biaas Sanyal
• Debjanee Chakrabarti
• Indrani Banerjee
• Jhelum Roy
• Lopamudrra Chatterjee
• Marilyn Kwan Kharkongor
• Mithu Karmakar
• Moinak Choudhury
• Nibedita Sen
• Parthojit Chowdhury
• Ritwika Sanyal
• Rudrani Mukherjee
• Sanhita Sinha
• Saptarshi Deb
• Sayani Biswas
• Shinjana Mukherjee
• Shinjini Chattopadhyay
• Sreyashi Mukherjee
• Sudipa Palit
• Sumit Singha
• Tina Kaviraj

 The invitations have been sent to the addresses provided by them in the student information form handed out at the beginning of the course. If any of these students have not received an invitation, please get in touch with me.

Editing Using Microsoft Word

Please follow the link given here to access a presentation that provides a good overview to editing using Microsoft Word. This should act as a useful supplementary to the class taken on this topic.

We would like to thank Amarjyoti Dutta, currently working in Pearson Education India, for this presentation.

Link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByF9ybqRhNuATjU1U3hMNVNNTVk/edit?usp=sharing

Division of Class into Groups for Classes in the Arts Faculty Computer Room

The classes dealing with editing using computers will be held in the Arts Faculty Computer Room, which is on the third floor of the UG Science Building. You will be told how to reach that room today, and I will repeat the directions tomorrow. The first class in that room will be held on Thursday, 7 February 2013.

The class of 48 students will be divided into two groups of 24 students each. Each group will do the same class, but on different days. Therefore, Group A will have its first class in the Computer Room on 7 February 2013 (Thursday), while Group B will have the corresponding class on 8 February 2013 (Friday). On days when a group does not have a class, it is not expected to turn up, and the attendance will be adjusted accordingly.

The students in Group A are:

Abhijit Dutta

Abira Nath

Aishani Roy

Amrita Dutta

Amrita Kar

Ananya Adhikary

Angana Moitra

Anindita Banerji

Anuja Khatua

Anwesha Rana

Arnab Chakraborty
Avinash Noel Antony

Barsha Saha

Biaas Sanyal
Chandrani Datta

Debani Deb
Debjanee Chakrabarti

Deeptesh Sen

Devika Singh

Diya Sinha

Hiya Chatterjee

Indrani Banerjee

Jhelum Roy
Joyinee Ganguly 

The students in Group B are: 

Lopamudrra Chatterjee

Marilyn Kwan Kharkongor

Mithu Karmakar

Moinak Choudhury

Nibedita Sen

Parthojit Chowdhury

Pritam Bhaumik

Ritwika Sanyal

Rudrani Gangopadhyay

Rudrani Mukherjee

Sanhita Sinha

Saptarshi Deb

Sayani Biswas

Shahana Yasmin

Shinjana Mukherjee

Shinjini Chattopadhyay

Shubhankar Deb

Sreyashi Mukherjee

Sudipa Palit

Sulagna Chattopadhyay

Sumit Singha

Tina Kaviraj

Upasana Saraswati

Vedatrayee Banerjee

Kolkata Book Fair Assignment

Students are requested to attend the Kolkata Book Fair 2013 being held at the Milan Mela ground off the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass. The fair is expected to run till 10 February 2013. Entry is free.

At the fair, students are requested to select five stalls (selling books, journals or magazines, other categories will not be accepted) and grade them according to a number of parameters, and write down comments about what they felt was good and what they felt was bad about the stalls they had selected. The parameters are listed in a form that can be used by students as a template. The form can be downloaded from: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByF9ybqRhNuAdUdRQlVvT20tb1E/edit

Please make an attempt to cover different kinds of stalls. Suggested stalls include the Elsevier stall, the Taylor and Francis stall, the Bookline stall, the Script stall and the Jadavpur University stall (Stall No. 296). Students are free to choose others as long as they sell books, magazines and journals. Try not to choose stalls run by houses that publish newspapers, as the content there will be greatly mixed.

The reports need to be submitted by Wednesday, 13 February 2013. Anyone unable to engage in this project must state in writing why they cannot do so. A comment on this post will be the best way of informing me.