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Hiring from Outside the Industry

Inspired by Publishing Podcast

Release Date: 08/16/2019

Mental Health & Well-being in the Workplace, with Ashley Lodge show art Mental Health & Well-being in the Workplace, with Ashley Lodge

Inspired by Publishing Podcast

Ensuring mental health and wellbeing at work has become a top priority for many companies, so in today's podcast we chatted with Ashley Lodge, Mindfulness Lead across Pearson and Mental Health and Wellbeing Senior Publisher, UK School at Pearson on the importance of mental health and well-being at work especially through his specialism, mindfulness, and the benefits of it for both individuals and organisations. 

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Returnships  - Coaching Parents Back to Work, with Kate Smith show art Returnships - Coaching Parents Back to Work, with Kate Smith

Inspired by Publishing Podcast

In this episode of our Inspired by Publishing Podcast we chat with Kate Smith from Wiley, who is also a Certified Coach, Mentor and supporter of talent. We were fascinated to hear more from Kate about "parental coaching", an initiative, which originally stemmed from the response to the Gender Pay Gap legislation. This could certainly go a long way to helping support individuals with their career aspirations, whilst retain and create a more equitable workplace.

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#WorkinPublishing Week: Support Available for Those First Getting into Publishing  show art #WorkinPublishing Week: Support Available for Those First Getting into Publishing

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Welcome to Friday of #WorkinPublishing Week! In the podcast today we chatted with Consultant, Shalini Bhatt, all about the various support available for those first getting into publishing! So take a listen to find out where you can find an extra bit of help and guidance.

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#WorkinPublishing Week: Different Publishing Sectors & Transferable Skills  show art #WorkinPublishing Week: Different Publishing Sectors & Transferable Skills

Inspired by Publishing Podcast

We are very excited to be bringing you a mini podcast series all this week full of wonderful topics to prepare you to #WorkinPublishing. We are now over halfway into #WorkinPublishing Week, and today our podcast is focussing on the different sectors in publishing and our Managing Consultant, Helen Harradine's favourite words transferable skills! Find out how you can #workinpublishing by listening to this podcast! 

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#WorkinPublishing Week: How to Make Your Application Stand Out show art #WorkinPublishing Week: How to Make Your Application Stand Out

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It's day three of #WorkinPublishing Week. We are very excited to be bringing you a mini podcast series all this week full of wonderful topics to prepare you to #WorkinPublishing. This morning we are bringing you some amazing insight from our Junior Consultant, Alice Bidetti, on how to make your application stand out, from your CV, your covering letter and YOU!

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#WorkinPublishing Week Temp Opportunities & Top Tips for Interviewing  show art #WorkinPublishing Week Temp Opportunities & Top Tips for Interviewing

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It's day two of #WorkinPublishing Week. We are very excited to be bringing you a mini podcast series all this week full of wonderful topics to prepare you to #WorkinPublishing. This morning we are very excited to be celebrating Temps Tuesday by chatting with our Consultant on the Temps desk, Rhiannon Griffiths about temporary opportunities and her top tips for interviews.

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#WorkinPublishing Where to Start... show art #WorkinPublishing Where to Start...

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Welcome to day one of #WorkinPublishing Week! We are very excited to be bringing you a mini podcast series all this week full of wonderful topics to prepare you to #WorkinPublishing. This morning we are kick starting this off with our Associate Director Esme Richardson, talking about where to start… 

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Independent Publishing in the 21st Century show art Independent Publishing in the 21st Century

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In this episode of our Inspired by Publishing Podcast we chat with Richard Charkin, CEO & Founder of Mensch Publishing. Richard has held executive positions at numerous high profile publishing companies, before deciding to embark on a new adventure in setting up and running Mensch Publishing. We are eager to hear about what it is like to start and run a small independent press, the challenges he’s faced and overcome along the way, and any advice he can share for others looking to do the same.

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The Open Access & Plan S Debate, with Tasha Mellins-Cohen show art The Open Access & Plan S Debate, with Tasha Mellins-Cohen

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Today on our Inspired by Publishing Podcast we are joined by Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Director of Publishing at Microbiology Society.  Tasha chats with us about a VERY important topic currently being debated in scholarly publishing which is that of Open Access and Plan S.

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Content Types & New Technology in Publishing, with Jon White show art Content Types & New Technology in Publishing, with Jon White

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On today's podcast we welcome Jon White from MakeMatic. He will will be talking to us today about bridging the gap between technology and cross-media content industries, the difference between various content types as well as new technologies available, and which are most relevant to the publishing sector.

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Our podcast today is about hiring from outside the publishing industry. We are delighted to welcome our guest, Craig Haward, Talent Acquisition Partner EMEA for McGraw-Hill Education. Craig has been working across the e-Learning and Academic Publishing industry for a number of years but he joined the publishing industry from the software sector. Today we chat with him about the opportunities and challenges that the publishing sector faces when hiring talent, thinking specifically about hiring from outside the industry.

Opinions expressed are solely Craig Haward's own and do not express the views or opinions of Craig Haward's employer.