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My job in five


Claire Carrington- Smith is a senior publishing recruitment


consultant at Atwood Tate


Describe your role. I work with publishers and candidates on roles outside London, covering all sectors across all roles, including editorial, design, production, sales, marketing, operations and distribution. I place candidates in permanent and contract positions, and help our publisher clients find the best candidates for their roles. It is a busy and varied desk, as I cover a wide variety of locations and a mix of publishers from diverse sectors, including academic, STM, trade, professional and charity publishing. No one day is the same but I always make sure I am offering and delivering the best service we can to our candidates and clients.


What do you like best about your role? I really enjoy meeting clients and candidates; meeting them in person helps me understand their needs. But I have to say that the satisfaction of helping teams find the right person to join them, and helping people get a job in publishing, is definitely the best part of my job.


What challenges are you seeing in the job market at the moment? The market is candidate- driven at the moment and employment levels are high, so we are encouraging companies to move


quicker to secure the best candidates. We encourage our clients to choose our Gold service, which gives them an agreed recruitment schedule so they know exactly how long the process will take.


What skills do you need for your role? As well as knowledge of the industry, you need to be an excellent communicator. You also need a fair amount of resilience, as recruitment is unpredictable, and you need to be able to keep abreast of industry developments and the job market.


What advice would you give to those looking to work in the industry? Research all the roles in publishing and spend some time interning at publishing houses. Prior to my first job as a special sales assistant at Octopus, I worked as a bookseller and floor manager at Blackwell’s, and then in admin in an office. I was applying for lots of editorial jobs and not getting anywhere, until I realised my people skills could be put to use in a job in sales. I got my first job at Octopus pretty much straight away after that, and I haven’t looked back.


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Job of the fair MARKETING


Senior Marketing Manager (Maternity Cover) LOCATION London


Bloomsbury Publishing is recruit- ing an experienced Marketing Manager for a fixed term mater- nit cover contract starting June or sooner.


This is an exciting opportunit for an experienced marketer to work on Bloomsbury’s prestigious visual arts lists within the award- winning Academic division. You will be promoting high profile


and high revenue lists, including our Bloomsbury Visual Arts and Fairchild Books imprints and covering titles in Fashion & Textiles, Design, Interior Design, Architecture, Photography, Art & Visual Culture. Our portfolio of products ranges from introductory textbooks and academic research, to trade titles and multi-volume reference works. You will manage and guide two reports at marketing execu- tive / senior marketing executive level. Reporting in to the Head of UK Academic Marketing, this role will suit a creative and confident person with proven people management skills alongside solid experience of marketing in academic publishing, particularly textbook marketing and trade crossover books. To apply, please email your CV with a covering leter outlin- ing how you meet our requirements for this role and your salary expectations to workwithus@bloomsbury.com .


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