Copyright 2003, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

Roadracing World is expanding its staff and is accepting applications for an Assistant Editor. While we are already looking at a couple of people, we want to make sure we haven’t overlooked any qualified candidates.

The successful applicant will:

–Be able to write.

–Have motorcycle road racing experience.

–Have a strong work ethic.

–Be responsible, with initiative and drive.

–Be able to complete assigned tasks without constant supervision.

–Be able to show up at the office (or anywhere else required) on time, when expected, every day.

–Have had work published, and will be able to produce work samples in originally submitted form (in other words, before somebody else edited them).

–Understand that magazine deadlines wait for no man (or woman).

–Be a team player.

–Be computer and Internet literate.

–Be willing to work their ass off.

–Be willing to immediately relocate to the Lake Elsinore, California area.

–Have a valid motorcycle operator’s license and a relatively clean driving record.

–Have a valid racing license issued by a recognized organization.

–Be a U.S. citizen or currently authorized to work in the United States.

–Have personal medical insurance that will cover them until their Roadracing World Publishing, Inc. coverage kicks in.

–Be a non-smoker.

–Be honest and loyal.

–Be enthusiastic about motorcycles and motorcycle racing, and about writing about motorcycles and motorcycle racing.

–Be able to follow directions.

–Know the difference between its and it’s.

–Know the difference between damping and dampening.

–Have a demonstrated ability to use pieces of equipment and vehicles without destroying them, i.e., as purely hypothetical examples, have no history of flinging a laptop computer across the parking lot while fooling around in front of an office or burning the brakes off a box van by attempting to do stoppies with five bikes in the back.

Formal education in communications/journalism is a plus; willingness to take journalism classes a must for anyone without formal education in journalism.

Apply by letter of introduction, via e-mail, 150 words max, to [email protected], by 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Friday, April 28. Applicants with any hope of actually getting the job will be asked by e-mail to follow up with work history, race results and writing samples, addressed to:

Editor
Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.
PO Box 1428
Lake Elsinore, CA 92530-1428

Do not attempt to apply by phone.