Diversity/Recruit and Retain Committee

Committee contact: Tina Jordan

AAP's Diversity/Recruit & Retain Committee works to attract more talented, diverse voices to the book publishing industry.

At the heart of the Committee’s work is the “Book Yourself a Career” campaign, and the centerpiece of the campaign is the Bookjobs.com website. Bookjobs.com serves as a comprehensive database of jobs and internships in the industry as well as a “one-stop-shopping” resource for information about book publishing. The jobs database includes job and internship listings from nearly 300 book publishers of all types — large and small, consumer, professional, and educational. The website has a wealth of information including types of publishers; information about various companies, types of jobs in publishing, matches between college majors and particular job departments, publishing programs, and events in the industry.

The DRRC has a College Outreach initiative to publicize the website on college campuses, with a focus on those schools with high academic standards and a diverse student population.