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$10 USD / hour

cape town,

south africa

$10 USD / hour

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Joined June 7, 2015

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Caryn B.

@carynbaxter

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cape town,

south africa

$10 USD / hour

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Professional accountant, editor, and proofreader.

I am an editor, proofreader, transcriptionist, accountant and secretary with a BA in English and Philosophy, and a BCom in Accounting. I have eight years' experience in proofreading, editing, secretarial services and transcription. I have three years' experience in accounting.

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$30.00 USD

Proofread an English Literature Thesis

It was an absolute pleasure to work with Caryn! Her proofreading and copy-editing skills were outstanding; she definitely made my thesis much better. She even went the extra mile to ameliorate it!

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English (UK) Translator

Oumaimah A.

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9 years ago

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Exigent

Dec 2013 - May 2015 (1 year, 5 months)

Transferred to a team of six people to do proofreading for a top-tier London law firm, primarily reading interbank and corporate contracts for its finance division. Duties and skills: ● Proofreading for punctuation, style, sense and grammar errors. ● Checking and amending cross-referencing and casing. ● Conforming and correcting formatting errors and stylistic inconsistencies. ● Performing comparisons between two versions of documents. ● Editing of legal correspondence. ● Key contact for client. ● Accepting, quality checking and returning work. ● Mentoring junior members on team; providing assistance and feedback. ● All duties required of the Type-and-Send role, when required.

Exigent

Jun 2012 - Dec 2013 (1 year, 6 months)

Promoted to Type-and-Send and department deputy, taking on a more autonomous secretarial role, as well as assisting the manager with their duties. Duties and skills: ● Safely able to produce and return own work without a quality check required. ● Acting as manager when required, which involved: assessing the deadlines of jobs received; liaising with the client with regard to any deadline re-adjustment; receiving and discussing feedback from the client about jobs; and assigning tasks to a team of 10 people. ● All duties required of the Quality Checker role, when required.

Exigent

Aug 2011 - Jun 2012 (10 months, 1 day)

Began as a Document Technician in August 2011; promoted to Quality Checker in March 2012. Duties and skills: ● Accepting work from, returning work to and independently liaising with the client. ● Quality checking other team members’ work to ensure instructions have been followed and that the quality of presentation and grammar meets required standard. ● Providing feedback to co-workers when necessary. ● General production, accurate transcription, punctuating and formatting (including house-styling) of legal correspondence, including leases, contracts, title deeds, legal opinions and letters. ● Transcribing recordings of various types, including letters, file notes, conferences, meetings, etc. ● Formatting of documents to client requirements, which includes styling and basic proofreading for conversion errors. ● Performing comparison/redline of documents, either by reading, or using software, as required.