What career paths are available in Publishing?🖌

Publishing is a vast industry, with SO many exciting and varied roles available for everyone. Jobs in publishing can be found at different types of publishing companies and other organisations.

So let’s break it down, what areas/departments are you able to work in within Publishing?

- Agenting
- Audio
- Audience and digital development
- Marketing & Communications
- Design
- Editorial
- Production
- Publicity
- Rights
- Sales

That's a general overview of possible areas, but lets get more specific with role titles...

- Artist or Illustrator
- Assistant editor
- Audio assistant
- Audio publisher
- Commissioning editor
- Communications assistant
- Designer
- Digital marketing assistant
- Editorial assistant
- Literary agent
- Literary agent assistant
- Marketing assistant
- Press assistant
- Production assistant
- Commissioning editor
- Publicist
- Publicity Manager
- Rights assistant
- Rights executive
- Sales assistant
- Account manager

So, you can see from this list that there are SO many roles available in Publishing, and a lot of these can be joined at entry level.

If you want to know the routes into these roles, you can read our next Work in Publishing Week blog post on Friday which will be 'Routes into Publishing'.

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