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The primary objective of a placement opportunity, for a student or young practitioner, is to gain experience and build your CV (resume). Pay should be a secondary consideration. That said, some placements do offer a salary.

Placements (sandwich year): Also known as industrial placements. These are part of the degree programme, are for a full year, are advertised nationally and pay a salary.

Placements: Term used to describe any informal agreement between a volunteer and a supervisor. Length of service is negotiable, to suit both parties (eg one day a week, one week during university vacation). A salary is not payable, but students can often claim back travel expenses.

Adoptions: Term we use to distinguish informal placements from the formal, contractual 'industrial placement' that is a part of the degree programme.

Internship: Term used in North America to describe the range of workplace learning opportunities listed above.

Graduates required - PR / broadcast / research

We are a specialist broadcast consultancy, based in London, on the look out for the highest calibre graduate candidates for Account Executive roles within the growing teams in the editorial, promotions and research divisions of our companies (Markettiers4dc, Sound & Tickbox.net).

There is no such thing as a typical day for a team member at AE level in our business. It could involve coming up with ideas for an existing client to support their marketing and PR campaigns, it could be contributing towards a pitch document and being part of the pitching team for a new client, or reporting back to a client on the progress of their broadcast schedule, or sitting in and producing a series of interviews or webchat from one of our five broadcast studios in-house at our media-style offices in Clerkenwell, London where there's always a buzz. They mustn't be phased at having to deal with celebrities for a day at a time or MD level spokespeople, and should be able to ensure that they stick to message and deliver calls to action as part of their interview activity, and confident enough to provide advice to clients on the best strategic approach to adopt.

One thing's for sure, you'll be thrown in at the deep end, supported by your team-mates, and will gain hands on experience that your fellow graduates can only dream of. Why? Because we've been there ourselves, and recognise that the way to nurture talent is to provide it with opportunities and support it when the stretch is just that bit beyond your means. In our opinion, the best environment for many people is a learning environment which is why for many of our graduates the first year goes by before they've had chance to blink......and the second, and the third and the fourth.

Luckily, we're at the cutting edge of our industry, we really are, so by the time you're ready to move on to that next role, we've created it and you're career has yet another rung of the ladder to step on to! We were the first company in the country to build a dedicated webchat studio for clients to have access to for editorial purposes, to create an online research panel for PR agencies to create story angles via, and are the only agency in the country to offer an integrated broadcast service with the combination of offerings that we do! We currently employ 82 members of staff, many of whom joined us as graduates and who revel in the London life and the bond they've built with the instant family they've got through work. We are proud of our clients (who wouldn't be with names like Vodafone, COI, Lloyds TSB, Sainsbury's and Whitbread on their books, let alone most of the top 100 PR agencies!) and the work that we do for them.

If you have candidates who are interested in a PR or research career, ask them to send their CV to:

Karen Brooks at karen.brooks@markettiers4dc.com as we're currently in the process of interviewing for our next team of graduates.

Best Wishes

Karen Brooks

Director

markettiers4dc

Brazen PR work opportunities

Brazen is a leading consumer specialist PR agency with clients including The North Face, Magnet Kitchens, Stilton, Lambrini, Silentnight and many many more. We currently have some exciting opportunities to join us and find out just why we were voted CIPR Team of the Year for four years running.

All potential candidates must be extremely hard working, dedicated, ambitious, intelligent and, of course, Brazen about achieving the very best results for our clients and our team!

Applicants should be prepared to hit the ground running, helping our busy team researching and implementing campaigns. Confidence and an excellent telephone manner are essential.

You will gain invaluable insight into the day to day workings of a multi award winning agency and see how PR works from ideas stage through to implementation and evaluation.

Applications must include a CV and cover letter and any examples of practical or writing experience if possible.

POSITIONS

1) GRADUATE TRAINEE – 3 month contract with view to permanent post

2) WORK PLACEMENT – Regular 1-2 days week ongoing

TIMELINE

Closing Date for applications – 20 April

Interviews W/C 23 April

Start date - ASAP

CONTACTS

For more information please contact jobs@brazenpr.com or visit www.brazenpr.com

Posted: 13 April 2007

PR vacancy: Headingley, Leeds

Position Sought: Junior PR Executive

Location: Headingley, Leeds

Company: iseepr, b2b PR agency founded in 2005 – www.iseepr.co.uk

Experience: PR or related degree essential. Experience preferred.

Job Role: While this is a trainee / graduate position, PR agency experience would be preferred. The successful candidate will provide PR support to two senior directors working across global and national b2b accounts. Great organisational and communication skills are required (written and oral), as the Executive’s role will involve lots of writing for / speaking with the media, research and administrative support. There will also be an opportunity to get involved with co-ordinating client activity across industry events and conferences world-wide.

This is a great opportunity to learn the international PR ropes in a small, rapidly expanding and highly-respected team where you will have a defined, client facing role on various account and direct training from experienced PR practitioners.

Benefits:

International travel opportunities
CIPR membership / training courses available
Small team offers fast track promotion opportunities to the right candidate - ‘promote from within’ policy
New business rewards and incentives

Salary: £15k+ dependent on experience

Contact: Covering letters and CVs to

Lee’ann Kaufman – leeann@iseepr.co.uk / 0113 274 5252

Posted 2 April 2007

Placement: Press relations, TV channel, Paris

PREMIUM TO HOME (P2H)’s main business activity consists in TV broadcasting and TV production. It has created an international TV channel dedicated to football (soccer), called FOOTSCHOOL TV that it runs and develops.

FootSchool TV is a new TV channel on football learning and football entertainment mainly intended to teens and pre-teens (from 10-year-old to 19).

Description:

The main role of this full-time position (compulsory internship agreement) will mainly consist in dealing with press relations and external communication.

Tasks:

The primary tasks are as follows:

Preparing press kit in English & follow-up of press kit preparation in other languages
Dealing with press requests (from all countries)
Organising the communication activities and implementing specific actions
Providing press agencies and targeted media with regular information and press releases in English (and other languages) on the channel and its TV programmes
Implementing a database with targeted press agencies, media and journalists (International)
Organising press conferences or other events with local communication agencies in the countries where the channel is broadcast
International press reviewing of articles and topics dedicated to the channel
Dealing with Footschool TV's Website as a contact interface and a communication tool with media

Moreover, and only in the first weeks:

Dealing with company's incoming phone calls

Selection Criteria:

Completing his/her studies, dynamic, and having good communication skills, the candidate should necessarily have English as mother tongue (additional languages would be an asset). Advanced Computer skills required (MS Office…). A good knowledge of football would be appreciated.

Start date: as soon as possible

Duration: at least 2 months (to be discussed with the candidate)

Place of employement: 53, rue Vivienne- 75002 PARIS – FRANCE

Salary: 335 € per month

Application (CV and covering letter) by email to: contact@footschooltv.com

Posted: 27 March 2007

Placement: restaurant launch, Leeds

Project: North African take-away restaurant comes to Leeds

Food: Flavour of North Africa

Drink: Mixed, fresh teas from around the world

About: All the food will be fresh and healthy. Each dish will be unique. The menu will educate its customers about the herbal qualities of the ingredients.

Research: Arabic culture, north African culture and cuisine, the target audience

Requirements: To work closely with members of Why Create Limited (Whycreate) to develop and create PR pieces which will be used across several mediums, providing a fully integrated design, brand, marketing and PR campaign to launch and sustain the growth of the new business

Mediums: Design, Brand, Website, Menu, Direct mail, poster, advert and radio campaign all integrated with good PR

Why Create: The company has good contacts within the area and will therefore be able to give a fun, first hand experience.

Project start: 1st April 2007

Project end: 31st April 2007

Recruiting: Immediately

ALL ENQUIRIES NEED TO BE E.MAILED TO PR@WHYCREATE.ME.UK. DEADLINE 31ST MARCH 2007.

If you have any queries then please give me a ring.

Simon Kevan

Director

Tel: 01132345556

Fax: 01133980124

46 The Calls, Leeds LS2 7EY

Posted 20 March 2007

Placement opportunity: award submission

PR or sports marketing student sought by team within Leeds Metropolitan University preparing an awards submission based on the university's pioneering partnerships - particularly in sports.

A student is needed for a day or half a day a week up to the first week in April. Role is preparing copy and secondary research.

Based at the Old School Board in central Leeds. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays are best days, or any combination of those days.

Dr Tina Conkar

Business and Research Development Manager

Knowledge Transfer and Public Funding

Room 109

The Old School Board

Leeds Metropolitan University

Leeds LS1 3ED

Email - t.conkar@leedsmet.ac.uk

Telephone: DL 0113 283 3234

Posted: 19 March 2007

Bright sparks needed (graduates, London)

Spark Communications is looking to hire two public relations graduates. If you are looking for a role where you will learn quickly and be given responsibility in a friendly, small, down-to-earth agency with big name clients including Compuware and Symbol, then we would like to hear from you. Through our creative and proactive approach to PR we are able to deliver programmes that achieve excellent results for clients. We are looking for enthusiastic team players that are keen to learn and interested in working primarily on business-to-business accounts. Our client list includes technology, new media, mobile, HR/training and marketing companies.

We expect you to be passionate about securing press coverage for your clients and to have good writing and communication skills, as well as the ability to multi-task and prioritise.

Several members of our team joined us directly from university and can give you an insight into what a role at Spark would involve, expected progression and the training programme you would go through.

Please email Ana Williams at Spark for an application form - ana@sparkcomms.co.uk

Spark Communications website

Posted 14 March 2007

Graduate trainee, Green Communications (Wakefield)

Nothing stays still for long and following some significant new business wins GREEN is looking for a graduate trainee and talented account managers and executives.

We've had a great start to the year and will be looking to recruit some new people over the next three months.

We're looking for self-starters with ambitions to join a fast-growing agency offering a wide range of communications services.

Have a look at GREEN's Little Book of Values and our blog - and if you think we are the kind of company you would like to work for drop us a line to ian@greencomms.com.

Posted 14 March 2007

Placement opportunity (Reading)

We’re interested in hearing from students looking for work placement experience. Anyone looking for a placement is welcome to email me.

Sean Fleming

Clarity Public Relations

90 London Street

Reading

RG1 4SJ

Tel: 0870 950 9670

Email: sean.fleming@claritypr.co.uk

Web: Clarity PR

Posted: 13 March 2007

Portfolio opportunities (international PR: dive shop in Bali)

Hi there,

My name is Cynthia Kasar, I am a past graduate of the Public Relations course at Leeds Met. I have recently purchased half-share of a dive shop in Indonesia and am going to be re-working the communications and wondered if students on the PR course would like to assist as past of their portfolio work.

The main areas I want to focus on are:

Web site (my Dutch Business partner wrote it!)
Media Relations (focussing on UK, Dutch and German Dive Market)
Customer Relations (Quarterly Newsletter)

Cynthia Kasar

PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer #476568

Geko Dive Bali (PADI R-6029)

website

e-mail : gekodive@indosat.net.id

Address:

Jalan Silayukti, Padangbai 80872

Karangasem - Bali - Indonesia

Phone: +62-(0)363-41516

Fax: +62-(0)363-41955

Handphone: +62-(0)8124660996

Posted: 1 March 2007

External Affairs Officer (Leeds)

Salary: c£25-30k

The National Australia Group is not your ‘usual’ bank, so don’t expect the ‘usual’ banking environment.

We’re challenging conventional banking models and are making ambitious moves that are redefining the future of banking through our Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank brands in the UK.

We’re constantly challenging organisational norms and questioning ‘the way it’s always been done’. You’ll be in an environment where there’s plenty of important work still to come, and where you’ll be able to see your efforts make a genuine impact on the business. It won’t always be easy, but it will be rewarding.

We are looking for someone to support our media and government relations programme. You’ll be an achiever, with plenty of ambition and talent. We’re looking for someone to support our continued expansion. You’ll certainly be proactive and ambitious, with a track record of achievement.

For further details please contact either Ewan McCulloch (0141 242 4362, ewan.mcculloch@nab.co.uk) or Stuart Neill (0141 242 4165, stuart.neill@nab.co.uk).

Posted 27 February 2007

Iris (graduate opportunities, integrated agency, London)

Iris is one of the UK's most exciting integrated advertising agencies, and we are offering final year students the chance to kick-start their careers by joining our graduate recruitment scheme.

We're an integrated marketing agency, which means we work in different disciplines. From advertising to direct mail and web design to sales promotion. Our offices are in New York, Singapore and sunny Manchester. And it just so happens we're one of the hottest creative shops in London, where we are looking to take on six graduates.

Our graduate scheme is structured to provide the very best insight into advertising. One that will give graduates the chance to work on live campaigns for a client base that includes some of the biggest brands around.

We were recently listed as one of The Sunday Times' top 100 companies to work for, and pride ourselves on the ability to spot potential. Which is how we find the best people out there.

Catrióna Campbell

Account Manager

iris

iris Towers

185 Park Street

London SE1 9DY

Switchboard +44 (0) 20 76547900

Fax +44 (0) 20 76547901

DDI +44 (0) 20 7654 7338

Mobile +44 (0) 7921 138824

email catriona.campbell@iris-london.co.uk

Iris website

Posted 22 February 2007

Mere PR (graduate role, Cheshire)

We are looking to recruit a PR team administrator here at Mere. This is a full-time, permanent entry-level position.

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate a strong interest (if not experience) in the industry. It's for someone who is looking for a first step on the ladder.

The position is admin based - formatting and issuing press releases to the media, helping to compile cuttings and evaluations for client meetings, answering the phones etc. The role is used as a stepping stone so that candidates can learn about the industry, our clients and how the business works - and we provide training for press release writing, placing comps and organising and attending events.

Kerrie Mooney

company secretary

Mere PR

Campaign House, Cecil Road

Hale, Altrincham WA15 9PA

Tel: 0161 929 8700

kerrie@mere.co.uk

Mere PR website

Posted 22 February 2007

Write for The Met newspaper

Writers, editors, designers, photographers, even 'PR gurus' are sought by The Met (Leeds Met student newspaper).

Please come to an open meeting and social event on Friday 16 February from 3pm in the Met Bar, Civic Quarter.

If you cannot attend but would like to help the newspaper, then email the editor: a.watkinson@leedsmet.ac.uk

Posted 13 February 2007

Full-time paid placement, cosmetics (London)

Coty dominates the UK mass colour cosmetics market with Rimmel, the UK's No 1 brand and the newer but fast-growing Miss Sporty line. Prestigious fragrance brands include Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs and Vera Wang as well as younger, dynamic brands such as Miss Sixty. A pioneer in the celebrity fragrance market, Coty successfully launched Jennifer Lopez and Sarah Jessica Parker, amongst others. Coty's Lifestyle brands include Joop!, the UK's No 1 men's fragrance and the globally successful Adidas toiletries range. Coty is a key player in both the premium and mass sun care market with Lancaster Sun care and the successful SunShimmer self-tan range.

Please note: Full job descriptions will be sent to applicants on receipt of CV.

PR Assistant (Job Ref: 01)

A Media, PR, Marketing or Communications Degree is required and a keen interest in pursuing a career in PR. The successful candidate will assist the PR team with administration duties, product launches, media requests and have a real opportunity to get involved and experience the world of PR.

Location: Wimbledon

Vacancy type: Fixed-term (12 months), full-time

Salary: £13,000

To apply, please send your CV and Covering Letter, quoting the placement reference number that you are applying for to: student_placement2007@cotyinc.com

Ruth Ballard, Coty, St George's House, 5 St George's Road, Wimbledon SW19 4DR

Coty website

Closing date: 28 February 2007

Posted 10 February 2007

Placements at Revolver (Leeds)

During 2006 Revolver offered a number of work experience placements to students of varying ages and levels of experience. Work experience students have been welcomed by the team as their involvement tends to relieve workloads, particularly at AE level where students can play a particularly useful role in executing crucial media relations and ‘housekeeping’/admin tasks. Particularly successful placements, usually those of under-graduate calibre, have had the vision to get involved in wider tasks and have been given the opportunity to get involved in the project management of bigger campaigns and big media relations activities.

To meet departmental targets and objectives in 2007, new objectives, roles and responsibilities will be set for the team. We will need to work smarter and take empowerment to the next level through each individual ‘stepping up’ to the challenge, taking on more responsibility, working independently and supporting those above by driving through tasks upon initiative etc. This will provide a greater need for the support and assistance of those work experience students that can fit seamlessly into the department by competently completing the tasks set for them. As such, it is important that students meet a high standard – understand the working practices of a consumer PR agency, grasp the importance of trends and have their fingers on the pulse. However, more importantly, they should possess drive, enthusiasm and a passion for PR.

Benefits to students

Valuable work experience for student’s CV.
Real case studies for students to add to their portfolio.
Introduction to Revolver and how it fits into the Propaganda jigsaw (via Revolver Creds presentation)
Valuable media training (for long-term placements).
Involvement in creative campaigns for high-profile consumer brands.
Insights into the department’s trend generation work and its importance for consumer campaigns

Contact: Emma Broadbent

PR Account Director

Revolver (Part of the Propaganda Group)

T: +44 (0) 113 287 8958 (Direct line)

F: +44 (0) 113 287 0111

E: emma.broadbent@revolvercomms.com

Posted 8 February 2007

PR Intern: IKEA Ltd (London)

Leading home furnishing retailer with 15 stores in the UK and 244 stores worldwide. Our business idea is to offer a wide range of well designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.

Length of placement: 3 months

Location: IKEA Service Office 255 North Circular Road London NW10 0JQ

Study/experience gained: Deep understanding of how the national press office operates with direct involvement in day-to-day operations, internal and external meetings and projects.

Study/experience required: Excellent phone and writing skills. PR, Communications or Marketing background.

Expenses: None

Supervision: One member of the PR team (Giorgio Rondelli) will supervise the intern explaining how we operate and why we carry out specific activities in the context of the overall UK PR and Marketing strategy. The intern will refer to the supervisor or any other member of the team for any support and guidance.

IKEA website

To apply: Send CV and covering letter by e-mail to Giorgio Rondelli at giod@memo.ikea.com

Closing date: 21 February 2007

Posted 6 February

Fashion, beauty, lifestyle (London)

The Communications Store in London, specialising in fashion, beauty and lifestyle is seeking placement students wanting to gain work experience in one or more of these areas.

Send CVs to office manager Kellie Blower (email: kellie@tcs-uk.net).

Posted 5 February 2007