STEVENS EDITING AND PROOFREADING

Editing and proofreading of publications, marketing and training materials, corporate reports, newsletters, theses, novels.I will work onsite if within the area.

Established a human resources department. The NGO employed 150 people. Employment contracts, labour relations, disciplinary hearings and attending conciliation hearings at the CCMA, recruitment and interviewing candidates, report writing, editor of and compiling internal monthly newsletter, general human resource management functions.

HR Officer, promoted to HR Manager, and thereafter HR Consultant from 1986 to 2003: Responsibities included - Skills development facilitator; recruitment, interviewing and shortlisting candidates; administration of the bursary fund and on the selection committee to appoint bursary students annually; compiling Key Performance Areas; report writing; mentoring hr representatives at the branch offices nationally, and initiated and wrote a training manual for the representatives; liaising with SAQA (South African Qualifications Board where qualifications of immigrants are assessed); researching up-to-date technologies in the human resource discipline; introduced the Investors in People exercise to the company; Generalist hr functions. A few relevant articles were written for the company's newsletter.Part-time freelance editor and proofreader.

Recruitment and selection; compiling recruitment ads to be placed in the media; interviewing and shortlisting candidates; report writing and writing of correspondence; attending management committee meetings weekly; updating the leave register; generalist in hr functions; and editor of the monthly internal newsletter of the company.GH Marais merged with Stewart Scott Consulting Engineers in March 1997