How to Get Into Publishing Nine tips for the skills employers look for
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:– [email protected]– @sashers