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Intern Opportunities

MyCelebrityFashion is seeking an Editorial Fashion Intern for 3 months, which is paid on a full time basis. For more information visit: http://www.mycelebrityfashion.co.uk/blog/calling-all-fashionistas--3-month-internship-at-mycelebrityfashion~1365/

Woman magazine is seeking fashion interns, from a minimum period of 1 week to a maximum period of a month. To apply send your CV to aoibhinn_mcbride@freelance.ipcmedia.com, or tweet her @AoibhinnMcBride.

Would you like to complete a yearlong placement?

Loreal offer 12 month placements in various departments, from the News Media department, PR, Marketing and others. Internships range from 3 months to 1 year.

For more information and to apply visit: http://www.lorealbusinessclass.co.uk/

Do you want a flexible internship?

Hedonia is looking for a part time administration assistant, who has a love of dresses. To apply please email: contact@hedonia.co.uk

CocoKouture Magazine is always seeking new interns. This is a flexible placement overseas, where you work from home as a writer/blogger. The magazine covers a range of topics from fashion and beauty, to style and trends, so if you’re interested in writing for them please use the link below.

To apply, please visit: http://www.cocokouture.com/contact/internships

Are you looking for your first job?

Conde Nast is looking for a PA/ Advertising assistant /Events Coordinator. For more information, please visit: http://digital.condenastinternational.com/uk/pub-page.current-jobs.htm

A copy writing and content role is available in North London, with a starting salary of 18k. Please send your CV to RachelH@blueskiescareers.co.uk.

Please remember that most the vacancies are on my Twitter profile page - @steff_lever

Top 5 Tips for Affording Unpaid Publishing Placements

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Since my new page ‘Paid Internships’, I’ve been thinking a lot about how individuals can afford placements when they’re not paid. At present, it seems as though the industry offers very little in terms of paid work, but I’ve established a few top tips below, which are ways to ensure that you can afford an unpaid placement.

1) Choose Your Placement Wisely

It’s true that a lot of publishing placements are unpaid. However, don’t forget that companies do offer contributions towards travel expenses, and sometimes lunch. If you are lucky, some internships will pay for both travel and lunch (within reasonable limits). Fewer placements offer no reimbursements towards travel or lunch whatsoever. These placements I would be tempted to avoid as it will probably end up costing you a lot of money.

2) Flexible Placements

There is always that catch 22 of placements that ask for experience and you don’t have any experience. To get around this, if you’re writer, start working for your local University newspaper or a smaller establishment where you have the flexibility to work from home. This is beneficial as you’ll have flexible hours and you’ll gain the work experience you need, and it shouldn’t cost you anything.

3) Create Savings and Budget

If you’re still a student, put some money aside each week from your student loan, you’ll need the savings. Although companies will pay towards your travel and sometimes lunch, you will still need to pay for this all in advance and provide the company with receipts later. Therefore, it’s good to budget early on. Many publishing placements are within the London area, so find out how much a travel card will cost you per day and how much you’ll spend on lunch. Do your calculations and find out how much money you’ll need in your savings for a two week placement.

4) Part Time Work

If the above is proving difficult, there is always the option of getting a part time job at the weekend. This will work whether you’re a student or a recent graduate, and hopefully this income will help you to afford an unpaid placement.

5) Temporary Administration Pool – Conde Nast

Conde Nast offers work in their ‘Temporary Administration Pool’ so if you’re a recent graduate out of work, you can gain admin work with them. You never know, it could open up other opportunities for you. To find out more go to: http://digital.condenastinternational.com/uk/pub-page.contact.htm. Currently, I don’t know any other publishing firms that offer the equivalent.

Keeping you updated...

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It has been a while since I have posted a ‘Keeping you updated...’ blog post. This is due to my launch of the ‘Career Search Diary (1)’, which actually says a lot about what I have been doing anyway, and not to mention, I have been focussing most of my energy on my studies.

For those unaware, yesterday my second Guardian article went live and is entitled ‘Top tips for finding publishing placements’ (http://careers.guardian.co.uk/careers-blog/how-to-find-publishing-placements?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter) It took some time to publish but I think it paid off. Essentially, the article goes into more detail about how to research for a publishing placement – especially if like me, you started with no experience.

Furthermore, I’m still writing fortnightly for my column on CocoKouture.com. The website has had a bit of a refurbish recently causing a reorganisation so, instead of being part of ‘Luxe Life’ I’m now part of ‘Style’ instead. Overall, I’m still very happy with my internship there, especially as it’s so flexible.

Additionally, I have written a small money saving tip for The Evening Standard, which should be published very soon. I got this opportunity through Twitter (of course), and I hope to continue a relationship with them.

For those lucky ones that have read up to this point. I have found another paid placement at Conde Nast, PA to Editor/Editorial Intern (http://digital.condenastinternational.com/uk/pub-page.current-jobs.htm). I’m hoping that some of you are way ahead of me and have already found this opportunity. Don’t forget that the links you can regularly check for paid work are on the ‘Paid Internships’ page.

Paid Internships/Placements in Publishing

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After analysing my website statistics and traffic sources, I’ve seen that many of my readers have been referred via search engines, searching for the term ‘paid publishing placements/internships’ in publishing. Therefore, I’ve decided to write a blog post as a guide to the limit paid placements in the industry.

Many of you that have already done research on paid placements have probably realised that really there isn’t many out there. I’ve been doing my own research in preparation for this blog –covering magazines, newspapers and book publishing. I have to warn you, I haven’t found a great deal.

Below, I have listed the companies that have advertised paid placements:

Penguin – Penguin have introduced their new ‘Paid Summer 2012 internships’, which I believe they recruit for annually. I did a blog post on this a while ago - 'Penguin Paid Internships Summer 2012'.

For more information visit: http://gs12.globalsuccessor.com/fe/tpl_penguin01.asp

Pearson – The Pearson diversity internship and the journalism placement at the FT.

For more information visit: http://summerinternships.pearson.com/how-to-apply.htm

Hachette – Occasionally, they do have paid internship openings. I met the paid digital intern when I was doing work experience there, and I know that she had been there for a least a few months.

Keep checking this page for paid internship opportunities: http://www.hachette.co.uk/WorkForUs/Careers

The National Magazine Company - Occasionally, they do have paid internship openings.

Keep checking this page for paid internship opportunities: http://www.hearst.co.uk/magazines/8-Opportunities.htm

Conde Nast – Easy Living are currently looking for a Picture Desk Intern, who will be paid for 3 months at national minimum wage.

To apply send your CV and cover letter to: lucy.teasdale@condenast.co.uk

For more information on this vacancy or to find other paid internship opportunities visit: http://digital.condenastinternational.com/uk/pub-page.current-jobs.htm

Please note: Some of the companies that I have listed above aren’t advertising paid placements at the moment. Thus, the links I have provided may not currently show the paid placements, but it is important to check these links regularly for the limited vacancies.

Please be aware that there may be other paid placement opportunities advertised with the companies above, which I have not stated. Unfortunately, it seems that other companies just aren’t offering many paid internships. It is a bit of a bleak outlook for my blog post this week. However, I will add the few placements listed above into a new page entitled ‘Paid Internships’.

Please feel free to leave comments/responses below. Don’t forget that I’m still looking for contributors to share positive intern experiences.

Are you still feeling unenthused or at a loss? Next week I plan to write a blog post entitled ‘How do I afford work experience?’