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By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid
Competitive compensation, generous benefits and access to top authors and top industry talent are why human resource professionals at big-six publishing houses say you should come work for them.
Following up on our Best Publishing Companies to Work For list, we caught up with human resources at both Penguin Group USA (tied for No. 3 on the list) and Hachette Book Group (No. 5) to find out what it’s like to work at their companies. In the course of the conversation, each made a pitch to prospective employees. Here is why they think you should come work for them.
Related: Best Publishing Companies to Work For
Benefits of Both Small and Large Companies
Despite their relative size (Penguin has 3,500 employees worldwide and Hachette has 914), Penguin and Hachette both boast having that “little company” feel.
“We do feel like a big and a little company,” said Paige McInerney, vice president of human resources as Penguin. “There’s no bureaucracy. Not every decision has to go through layers and layers of red tape before someone acts on it. People are really empowered to do things.”
At Hachette, chairman and CEO David Young makes a point to meet personally with as many new hires as possible. Both he and executive vice president and chief operating officer Kenneth Michaels hold monthly lunches with the staff in which employees are encouraged to suggest ways in which the company can improve.
At the same time, the companies offer the level of benefits one might expect from large, global firms: Competitive health benefits, educational benefits, flexible work-from-home policies, opportunity to advance up the corporate ladder and opportunity to work in different regions of the world.
Penguin, for instance, has a program where, once a year, a half-dozen people from its New York office work for a week in its London office; and a half-dozen people from the London office work in New York on a different week. The program is popular. The company says that it gets about 50 applicants for each of the six New York-to-London spots each year.
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Competitive compensation, generous benefits and access to top authors and top industry talent are why human resource professionals at big-six publishing houses say you should come work for them.Following up on our Best Publishing Companies to Work For list, we caught up with human resources at both Penguin Group USA (tied for No. 3 on the list) and Hachette Book Group (No. 5) to find out what it’s like to work at their companies. In the course of the conversation, each made a pitch to prospective employees. Here is why they think you should come work for them.
Related: Best Publishing Companies to Work For
Benefits of Both Small and Large Companies
Despite their relative size (Penguin has 3,500 employees worldwide and Hachette has 914), Penguin and Hachette both boast having that “little company” feel.
“We do feel like a big and a little company,” said Paige McInerney, vice president of human resources as Penguin. “There’s no bureaucracy. Not every decision has to go through layers and layers of red tape before someone acts on it. People are really empowered to do things.”
At Hachette, chairman and CEO David Young makes a point to meet personally with as many new hires as possible. Both he and executive vice president and chief operating officer Kenneth Michaels hold monthly lunches with the staff in which employees are encouraged to suggest ways in which the company can improve.
At the same time, the companies offer the level of benefits one might expect from large, global firms: Competitive health benefits, educational benefits, flexible work-from-home policies, opportunity to advance up the corporate ladder and opportunity to work in different regions of the world.
Penguin, for instance, has a program where, once a year, a half-dozen people from its New York office work for a week in its London office; and a half-dozen people from the London office work in New York on a different week. The program is popular. The company says that it gets about 50 applicants for each of the six New York-to-London spots each year.
Read the full piece here
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