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Graduate Publishing Editor, General Chemistry


24a937e4d66d6a369b61949752b33332-original-bacheh.jpg I’ve been on the Graduate Scheme in RSC Publishing for 4 months now and I'm really enjoying it. Having completed my training in proof-reading, editing and making up issues, I’m just starting to select referees and make informed decisions on papers for Chemical Communications.

The speed of my training is definitely down to the experienced people who have been teaching me, answering all of my questions and making sure I get to work on a variety of papers from a variety of journals. This is especially important for me, as I now work in the General Chemistry team so anything could come up, from maths equations to crystallographic space groups or organic nomenclature.

I also started at the same time as two other graduates, who I still eat lunch with every day, which made it a lot easier to compare how we were all doing, ask questions of each other and see how each person would solve a particular problem. One thing I’ve learned is no problem is too small and everyone in the department is willing to answer. Last week, 5 people from various teams and with varying experience were crowded around my desk to solve a seemingly small nomenclature problem in a Dalton Transactions paper.

This is such a friendly place to work, with lots of recent graduates making it a good environment for the transition to working life. There are lots of opportunities to try working on other things than purely your Publishing Editor job, especially on the Graduate Scheme. I recently took an internal course in writing for the chemical sciences, and this week I’ve had my own chance to write an article for Chemistry World- why not take a look at some newsworthy science right now?


Helen Clare Bache is a Graduate working in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Publishing Department. To see if there are any current vacancies go to 'RSC: Latest Vacancies' Blog or subscribe to 'RSC: Latest Vacancies' by Email
 

Posted by Helen Bache on Apr 18, 2011 10:08 AM Europe/London

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