Jul 31, 2014 - EARLY CAREER PUBLISHERS. SURVEY. Company ... business models. Analytics and metrics. Social media. Comms.
EARLY CAREER PUBLISHERS SURVEY Results:
Editorial
UK & USA
Topics aligned with career
Project management
Mainland Europe Far East & UAE Australasia
Strategic management
South America
66%
XML Java
InDesign
IT
LaTeX Open Access
Analytics and metrics
Teams
Comms Social media
Proposals
Digital media
Training
59% Early Career Publishers
59% aged 35 or under
eContent
Business cases eProducts
84% in house
have worked in their organisation or 5 years or less
are female
Skills to obtain in the next 10 years
Business acumen
Acquisitions
Delegating
Management
Aspirations
New business models
Topics of interest
Coaching
43% are working in their field of study
Coaching and Mentoring Scheme
45%
Networking & Career Events
Document Resources & Careers Guidance
68%
have a BA degree or higher
Education
Outreach to Early Career Publishers
attend at least two training events per year
70%
53% Resources 48%
once per week
publishing degree
96%
What should ECPC do?
trade body or third party
10% have a
blogs Company newsletters & intranet
STM
57%
read industry news articles at least once a week
are in editorial
Medicine
37% Editorial
85%
81% Social
People’s previous functions
58%
networks
24%
28% First role/job
Roles
9%
Production
8%
Marketing/ Comms
Early Career Publishers Committee Focus Areas: Early Career Publishers • Outreach to early career professionals beyond the UK and USA • Explore the gender balance within publishing and its future leaders
Education
Roles
Resources
Training
Aspirations
• Raise awareness of publishing degree courses
• Raise awareness of wealth of roles within publishing
• Catalogue existing career resources
• Develop coaching and mentoring scheme
• Feed into in-house discussion on key publishing industry developments
• Highlight early career professionals through the generation of job profiles
• Produce and disseminate publishing careers guidance materials
• Organise networking events to help early career professions broaden their relationships
• Clearly demonstrate the career pathways available within the publishing industry • Help the future generation of publishing leaders meet their goals
• Arrange career events and workshops
“Data based on 802 responses to an industry survey conducted May – June 2014”
