2020 Webnovel is hiring Content Editors for our Singapore office!
I am INDIAN & studying polytechnic but i am interested for this post
how come the link given cant be access
StenDuring No shit.
Iโm also working in IT and definitely see a lack of real management material or lack of technical backgrounds in management. It is pretty scary when your CTO and CIO want cyber security to be a focus, but donโt even listen to their techs who are Certified Ethical Hackers.
As for Qidan and Webnovel... donโt they know they have members in their audience who are not just native English speakers, but endlessly frustrated ones? At times, I wish I could just offer my assistance for free for my favorite novels. Itโs so damned frustrating to have to mentally translate all the poor verb choice and tense usage. Even those that are supposedly edited!
To be honest the worst mistakes in IT-management occur when you pick leaders based on technical skills over people skills. A good leader will listen to people and use a pretty well developed gut-feeling for when bullshitting is in the air -- hence the need for actual technical skills are of pretty low priority.
The absolutely worst train wrecks I've seen are honest and hardworking, guaranteed superb techies, who are elevated into management. They immediately start by 'merely' requiring everyone else to do what they're able to do themselves, which is a bloody disaster when you just kicked your best developer into a management position. To add insult to injury, your best developer material in an organisation are unlikely to be very good at handlig people -- they're too damn busy keeping up with being the best programmer to bother with being able to socialize.
As for Webnovel and language standards; I've long since given up even pretending...
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Angko Do you have something against Singaporeans or something? So they should just hire Europeans and Americans? They set up a branch in Singapore, of course they would want to hire locals to work in the branch there. Or are you saying they shouldn't be allowed to set up a branch in Singapore?
So if I'm Singaporean, I can't fulfill anything in regards to customer service, my behavior as an employee would somehow be unsatisfactory, and...I don't even know what prices have to do with my nationality?
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StenDuring To provide context, Singaporeans are native English speakers, and the majority of the population are ethnically Chinese, which means they can speak Chinese fluently (I'm terrible at it, though).
Webnovel and Qidian are China-based, which means the upper management probably speaks mostly Chinese, hence their preference for Chinese speakers.
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Yup. As long as the English is of sufficient standard everything is fine. My primary rant was that if you hire someone to do work in a specific domain of competence, then preferably you should focus your requirements to that domain rather than an associated but secondary one.
Basically it should have read as expertise in English and working knowledge in Chinese.
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StenDuring I think that was precisely what it said? Unless I'm misunderstanding something?
- First English Language speaker (expertise in English)
- Fluent Chinese speaker (Mandarin) is preferred (because of working environment)
I could have interpreted it mistakenly, but I thought given the context, it was pretty clear.
Ah, I see that it's been edited since my original rant :D
Now it does indeed follow a preferred pattern.
StenDuring I see. I didn't see the original version.
Sunnnyy
I am/have
Second English language speaker;
Fluent Chinese speaker (Mandarin).
Deep love and enthusiasm for the reading of web novels, light novels or other fictional genres;
Good communication skills and quick learner.
But I'm not a professional writer.
I'm interested. But I'm Indonesian and live in Indonesia...
. I'll just wait for Indonesia's branch
The Sage Who Transcended Samsara urgently needs an editor. Please help.
Sunnnyy.
major in english literature,good communication skills & quick learner but dont know chinese
Sunnnyy.
major in english literature,good communication skills & quick learner but dont know chinese
major in english literature,good communication skills & quick learner but dont know chinese
I will ignore the link Sunnnyy gave and just ask for the job here.
Requirements๏ผ
First English language speaker;
My first language was Atlantian, but I forgot it cos it was 12,000 years ago thereabouts.
Fluent Chinese speaker (Mandarin) is preferred;
I can fluenty butcher the chinese language. I watched TKA with subtitles and I am feeling my way through pretenting to speak chinese.
English literature or professional writing major is preferred;
wots dis?
Deep love and enthusiasm for the reading of web novels, light novels or other fictional genres;
Everytime I read someone elses' web novel my eyes bleed due to writing quality
Good communication skills and quick learner.
I'm a very quick learner. It only took me 10,000 years to work out how to use telekinesis.
