At last year’s Inclusivity Conference run by the London Book Fair and the Publishers Association, we made two pledges:- Our first pledge was to continue the outreach work that we have been doing for many years: To educate other qualified Careers Advisers that publishing is open to all. This has involved us travelling around the country […]
The Spare Room Project has recently launched, which is designed as a practical initiative aimed at helping regional diversity in publishing, and led by James Spackman of Pursuit Agency. The Project will match students from outside publishing with a publishing professional in the capital (London), offering them accommodation for a week in July or August. […]
International Women’s Day, the day we celebrate the lives of women all across the globe, and think of our sisters less fortunate than ourselves, I can’t help but consider issues that are closer to home. The first is equal pay. Our last salary survey indicated that men were getting paid on average 16% more than […]
As you know, for a long time bookcareers.com has said a two week unpaid placement is bordering on acceptable. You might have noticed that, since the beginning of the year, even these have been removed from the bookcareers.com website. This is because we no longer endorse any unpaid work, unpaid work experience placements or unpaid internships. This includes opportunities […]
Over the years I’ve spoken to hundreds of Human Resource Professionals about how they select and sift through the masses of CVs and applications they receive in order to find THE ONE; the perfect candidate for the role. If you think about the process, you can visualise HR going through a mass of CVs, looking […]
A new grant scheme has been announced by the The Book Trade Charity (BTBS), as part of its closer collaboration with the Matthew Hodder Charitable Trust. It is the second phase of a pilot project aimed at encouraging talented younger people into the book trade though a programme of grants. The initial launch set out to […]
On 13/1/15 Suzanne Collier was on a Panel at the Society of Young Publishers (SYP) AGM #SYPAGM15. This is blog is slightly edited transcript of her talk. The bookcareers.com Salary Survey 2013 indicates that diversity is getting worse, with 93.7% of respondents classed as White, against the results of 2008, which reported that 90% of […]
Whether you like it or not, there is a drinking culture in book publishing. You cannot go to a publishing event without the compulsory glass of warm white wine being served. Quite a few of us on twitter talk about ending the day with ‘a large gin and tonic’ and I’ve worked for numerous companies […]
No, it isn’t the bookcareers.com Salary Survey – that is coming shortly. In the meantime please help Equality in Publishing (Equip) with their survey based around internships, equality and diversity. Bookcareers.com endorses this survey and the work done by Equip and are proud to have signed the Publishing Equalities Charter, so we’d be grateful if […]
