Index, a freelance career in publishers association. Online book indexing work jobs, employment freelancer. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. Job seekers deserve to know the true details of your job, including its location, duties and whether the job is being offered by the hiring company or by a recruiter on the companys behalf.
The lowstress way to find your next indexing job opportunity is on simplyhired. Apply to legal assistant, finance intern, copy editor and more. The value you have provided for me here is that i have now crossed book indexing off my list of things i might someday do. When there are no jobs book 1 a necessary job search and career planning guide for todays job market career development kindle edition by rega, paul. As the owner of weaver indexing service, i manage the company and provide book and journal indexing services to clients. You can find out more about becoming an indexer from the society of indexers. Indexing is the process of providing organized access to. Through it i can easily define the entries and their subentries, define cross references, it will locate their pages numbers, and i can set the font styling for each entry as needed. The lowstress way to find your next off the books employee job opportunity is on simplyhired. Troubleshoot and optimize all aspects of applications by utilizing the data from splunk, including splunk search head, indexer clusters, index storage. Now suppose a book has a short section on java library socket classes in which a function loadbufferx is mentioned.
Every posting should represent a real and available job. You still have that pressing need to get an index done for your book. For many it is part of a portfolio career encompassing other paid employment or. Book indexes are created for publishers by freelancers who work at home. Apply to customer service representative, integration engineer, technician and more. These are useful for anyone who may be thinking of taking up indexing as a career. So you want to be an indexer indexing is a professional, creative, serious, enriching career with serious potential for income generation, knowledge exploration, and community improvement. I do collect the index entries from the book in a text file, then do everything else through the program.
Preparing book indexes and other kinds of indexes is a viable career option. Book indexers usually work from home on a freelance basis. Find great jobs with that offer remote, work from home, and other flexible options. An index is helpful to a reader who needs to find information quickly without having to read through the whole book. As with all careers, however, not everyone has the skill or temperament required for the profession. Find jobs in indexing and land a remote indexing freelance contract today. As a service to the publishing community, we provide two complementary ways to list a job or to find an indexer. Even where the author is an indexer herself, she may choose to employ someone else to index her book, as pat booth did for indexing. There are over 3,881 off the books employee careers waiting for you to apply. If youve done a good job with subentries, this wont be an issue. Apr 06, 2017 when you say job prospects it makes me think of actual employee jobs, which are extremely rare in the book indexing business. The best job hunting books you should own published on september 9. In a traditional nonfiction or academic book, the index includes words, concepts, names of people, places, and events that are relevant and of interest to a possible reader of the book. This course is not meant to be a substitute for a comprehensive indexing course but does provide a detailed introduction to the process of indexing and working as an indexer.
If you are looking for an interesting, satisfying and intellectually challenging job which can be combinedread more. In general, indexing refers to the organization of data according to a specific schema or plan. Hire the best indexing specialists find top indexing specialists. I have a 100,000 word book that i need to get indexed.
If you intend to get a fulltime job for a single employer like a publisher, you will be very likely to be disappointed. Indeed ranks job ads based on a combination of employer bids and relevance, such as your search terms and other activity on indeed. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. They also offer workshops on working as a freelance indexer and establishing an indexing business. Apply to digital marketing intern, integration engineer, senior software engineer and more. How would you describe the main functions of your job.
Backofthebook indexing is much misunderstood, which i. A good index is a detailed map for the key contents of a book. Indexers are scarce and their skills are in demand. But many cant or wont want to and will shop it out to a relative, a grad student, or just do a casual job of it.
Search careerbuilder for indexing jobs and browse our platform. Freelancing book indexing chennai jobs, employment freelancer. The index is intended to help the reader, researcher, or information professional, rather than the author, find information, so the professional indexer must act as a liaison between the text and its ultimate user. I am willing to do what is necessary to facilitate the indexing process. The indexing books as a career mooc is intended for individuals interested in exploring a possible indexing career as well as for authors and editors who work with indexers. How to make money from home by indexing books toughnickel. Indexers come to indexing via various career paths but. Freelancing book indexing chennai jobs, employment. Without question, some authors can index their books competently. Book indexing is not a getrichquick scheme, nor is it a way to passive income. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal government site.
I am looking for jobs that involve academic research, citing sources, andor. If you love books and reading, have a fairly analytical mind, would love to be a business owner, and are looking for a career change or a parttime career opportunity, indexing might be just the thing for you. In it, the term has various similar uses including, among. Apply to customer service representative, integration engineer, assistant and more. This is not so different than indexing a technology book to help a programmer find the section for tcpip sockets for a particular language. As with all careers, however, not everyone has the skill or temperament requ. In it, the term has various similar uses including, among other things, making information more presentable and accessible. Indeed may be compensated by these employers, helping keep indeed free for jobseekers. If you find that most of your sorting is at the subentry level. So you want to be an indexer american society for indexing. Anyone who can take a subject like book indexing and turn it into an interesting read from start to finish is an ace human being in my books. Indexing books as a career free mooc sylvia coates.
The book is a historical biography that includes the topics of the history of yoga and occultism, the history of and the complex relationship between mexico and texas. New off the books employee careers are added daily on. Indexers must analyze the text to enable presentation of concepts and ideas in the index that may not be named within the text. Ive limited this list to my favorites that can help you find a job. How to contract with a book indexer word for word book services. Your writing skills as well as your thought processes are far above average. Book indexing jobs, employment skip to job postings, search close. The sublime joy of making a book index without bullshit. For many it is part of a portfolio career encompassing other paid employment or freelance activities such as editorial work, or provides a means of income which fits round other commitments. Job prospects in book indexing potomac indexing, llc. Backofthe book indexing is much misunderstood, which i know from having to argue at. For this indexing career profile, interviewed carolyn weaver from weaver indexing service. Apply to data scientist, senior software engineer, information technology manager and more.
The most popular indexing programs can be found here with downloadable. Go to your home page where all your books and collections if youve set them up are listed. Unlike the table of contents, where the arrangement of the titles is based on the order in which they occur in the book, the topics in the index are arranged alphabetically. Okay, eight books is a lot to get through for one job search, but hear me out. The pros and cons a surprisingly interesting discussion of whether it is necessary to create an index for a book one writesedits, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of creating the index oneself, hiring someone else to do it, or creating it with software, and how creating an index can be a feminist act. Indexing services susan holbert and pierce butler want to start a homebased career in a unique branch of editorial freelancing. I guarantee you the time it takes to do your job search right will be less than the time it takes you to do a job search wrongor worse, do a job search again because you didnt properly figure out what you wanted in the first place. Sep 20, 2010 if thats the case, your kindle might be stuck on an indexing job. Which leads me to how to check for and fix a stuck indexing job.
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