When you need careers advice, who do you turn to? Do you ask a family member or friend? Confide in a colleague? Someone who is doing the job already? A human resources or recruitment professional? All may be able to give you some help, but along with that help you have to make judgement […]
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Are you on the digital bus?
26/04/2013 in Careers Guidance, Publishing 0
One of my former employers always used to say ‘Are you on the bus or are you off the bus? The bus is leaving’. So I was very interested to read this blog by Michael Foy on O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing – Do publishers have the right people on the bus? I am […]
New Careers Resource
25/04/2013 in Publishing 0
The Publisher’s Association (PA) have updated their website and added a new careers resource – Working in Publishing. The plan is to develop it over the next few months, with more career profiles and information about working in the industry. If you want to know more about individual roles within the industry, do take a […]
Does Richard Charkin have any demons?
08/03/2013 in Careers Guidance, Miscellany, Publishing 0
Here is the final post for National Careers Week. Many moons ago I bumped into Richard Charkin at a Society of Young Publishers conference. At the time he had just taken over at Macmillan Publishers (he is currently Executive Director of Bloomsbury Publishing). Richard asked me what I was speaking about and I replied: ‘I’m […]
Are you managing your work/life balance?
07/03/2013 in Careers Guidance, Publishing 0
Our penultimate post for National Careers Week concerns something that a number of people have a problem with – work/life balance. It is so easy to say yes to everything you’ve been invited to or asked to do by your boss (or manage if you are the boss!). This blog is in the form of […]
Top Tips for Public Speaking
05/03/2013 in Careers Guidance, Interview Advice, Job Hunting, Publishing, Skills, Training 0
Our second post for National Careers week focuses on the skills needed to speak or present in public. Most of us have to do some public speaking at some point in our careers and we’ve identified our top tips to make the experience a success for you and your audience. 1. RELAX. 99% of the […]
National Careers Week
04/03/2013 in Careers Guidance, Job Hunting, Publishing, Skills 0
Today is the start of National Careers Week and every day this week we will be posting tips and advice on how to be better in your current role or to help you find a new one.
Does anyone ever suggest publishing as a career option?
23/01/2013 in Careers Guidance 1
Last year the Government appointed a Select Committee to assess the availability and access to careers guidance for those still within the school system. The report has just been published and its findings are not good. The report states that ‘career services within schools have deteriorated and without urgent intervention from Government they are likely […]
Will you switch off over Christmas?
18/12/2012 in Miscellany, Publishing, Social Media 0
I recently tried an experiment: I went on holiday and, for the first time since mobile phones began, I turned my mobile phone off. Feeling very brave I also set up an ‘out of the office’ auto-reply on all my emails. It said the following: I know you might find this hard to believe but […]
bookcareers.com Job Club Initiative
23/10/2012 in Careers Guidance, CV Advice, Interview Advice, Job Hunting, Publishing 0
We are delighted to announce that we are relaunching the bookcareers.com Job club, where we help those who are unemployed and who have already been working in UK book publishing with regular careers advice and guidance through regular face to face meetings. This Job Club would not be possible without the help of The Book […]