August is the birthday of Bookcareers.com.

It is now 26 years since our website went online and we’re celebrating by having a makeover. We’ve got a number of exciting projects coming too.

There’s a brief chat about a small part of the bookcareers history in this episode of bookcareers Live, our careers podcast.

What the episode doesn’t mention is the environment in which we launched. There was nothing – not a thing- encouraging people to look at book publishing as a career. The CEO of the Publishing Training Centre (the late Dag Smith) at the time told me ‘you’ve got your work cut out for you’. No publisher was interested in careers as ‘we already have far too many applicants’. How times have changed.

If you want to watch the video from our 20th birthday, you can find it here.
https://youtu.be/XaPnDuLBJIo

Most of all a HUGE BIG THANK YOU to each and every Trade Association, Organisation, Publisher, client and every individual one of you for your contribution and input to the success of bookcareers over the years.

THANK YOU.