How to Get Into Publishing

Nine tips for the skills employers

look for

About Skillset

• Sector Skills Council for Creative Industries• Industry, education and training providers • Ensure people have right skills• Suzanne Kavanagh, Publishing Sector Manager• www.skillset.org/publishing• www.blog.skillset.org• Twitter: @sashers

1. Attitude

• Diverse industry

• Competitive

• 38,000 employed in books alone

• 2,500 companies• 62% degree or equivalent

2. Research & Study

• Knowledge• Sector and market• Ability to prepare

3. Technical & Digital

• General office IT• Social media• Code: HTML, XML, CMS• Graphics packages

4. Communication Skills

• Answering the phone• Dealing with queries

effectively• Appropriate language for

emails

5. Literacy & Numeracy Skills

• Sentence construction and punctuation

• Grammar and spelling

• Proofread and double check

• Attention to detail

• Sales forecasts

• Working with budgets

• Customer accounts

6. Organisational skills

• Photocopying & faxing• Filing• Time management• Lists• Prioritise

7. Project Management

8. Problem-solving Skills

9. Team working

• Across departments

• Different kinds of people

• International teams

How can Skillset help you?

• Information on publishing

http://www.skillset.org/publishing/

www.blog.skillset.org

• Get in touch:– suzannek@skillset.org– @sashers