As a celebration of International Women’s Day, here is a podcast of panel talk given to the Society of Young Publishers Oxford Branch back in July 2010, on the subject of the Careers of Women in Publishing. Even though many years have gone by since this speech, much of it remains true today. We as a […]
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 […]
We’ve received details of the Society of Young Publishers 2013 Conference, which is going to be held in Oxford on 23rd November 2013. This year’s conference is entitled ‘Life in Publishing: it’s more than just books (and Tumblr!)’ and will focus on life in publishing and how to climb up that publishing ladder and what your next […]
At this time of year, when so many of you will have recently graduated, we know you are in need of specialist, impartial help with CVs and applications more than at any other time, so we’ve put our heads together and are delighted to announce that we have a summer offer on our ever-popular Employability […]
Whilst going through our archives, I found this article and have republished it with only a slight edit to remove one statistic. Please read through, and let us know how relevant you think it is to today’s job market. Attacking the skills shortage in publishing Suzanne Collier on why we should care better not only […]
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 […]
We’re delighted to announce that the Society for Editors and Proofreaders have ‘joined’ the CV Clearing House. The SFEP organise some brilliant training and membership facilities for those who are either in permanent roles or Freelance in Editorial. When you register with the CV Clearing House or update your details, you’ll have the opportunity to […]
Fabulous party last night to celebrate 60 Years of the Society of Young Publishers (SYP), during the evening, I was referred to as “the google of the publishing world” and nicknamed “googlepub”. I guess that is the 21st century version of being told that “my filofax reads like a who’s who of publishing”.
I am going to write some more memories of Andre Deutsch soon. In the meantime, I’ve made a Podcast of a talk I gave to the Society of Young Publishers (SYP). Enjoy! https://bookcareers.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2
