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Would you qualify for this job?

FXCM, an INC 500 company, leads the rapidly expanding field of online currency trading services for retail and institutional traders. The firm operates out of offices in New York, Dallas, San Francisco, London and Hong Kong. With substantial operations around the world, the FXCM Group currently services over 100,000 live accounts via the FXCM Trading Platform from nearly 200 different countries. FXCM has a proven reputation of reliability and success, executing on average 4,000,000 trades per month accounting for $350 billion in notional trading volume. Additional information can be found at: www.fxcm.com .
We currently have an opening in our Marketing Department for a Proofreader. The position will focus on quality assurance for all of the company's marketing material. We offer a competitive salary, exceptional medical benefits, a 401(k) plan, and an exciting, fast-paced working environment.
(Position includes the following):

Workflow Management:
• Edit material for mistakes in grammar, spelling, and sentence-structure
• Submit changes to Compliance and/or the Design department. Ensure that the work is complete as specified (formatting).
• Ensure that the edits submitted have been applied
Quality Assurance/ Proofreading:
• Proofread the entire company's written material as it's developed
• Check the technical functionality of finished work
• Do hyperlinks navigate to the proper location
• Can Web forms be submitted as designed
• Maintain consistency-of-work across all media (e-mail, eb site, print)
Qualifications:
• Must be eligible to work in the USA (No H1 Visa ponsorship).
• Bachelor's Degree in English, Journalism or Liberal Arts
• Excellent grammar, spelling, and solid sentence-structure skills, and an overall strong command of the English language
• Ability to exercise prescriptive-grammar judgment
• xcellent attention to detail
• Ability to communicate and organize ideas effectively
• Proficiency with MS Word a must; experience using MS Excel preferred. Adobe Acrobat experience a plus!!
• The ability to learn quickly the use of applications you may not be familiar with
• Some familiarity with the Chicago Manual of Style a plus



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PS. Were they trying to be ironic?