PR & Communications Industrial Placement 2023 London, England
Job description
Based: Current Location: Hammersmith. As of September 2023: White City
Duration: 1 Year
Start Dates: Monday 3rd July 2023
Application Deadlines: 27th January 2023 however roles are filled on a rolling basis
Annual Salary: £20,500 per annum
For a company like L'Oréal, press coverage, PR events and working with influencers is at the heart of everything we do. Representing our 35 international brands, each with its own voice is a challenge that takes a lot of creativity and tenacity.
Whether it’s a PR launch, help with organising an influencer trip, or coming up with ideas for a creative PR mailout, you’ll be creating the human face of the L'Oréal brand. It goes without saying that you should be a strong team player with a lively personality - this is a job as much about fun as hard work.
You will...
Working in the press office, you will help us to portray our brands in the best way possible to the press and influencers. This may include liaising day to day on specific products, offers to readers or managing large-scale events. As an intern, your principal accountability would be to provide support to the press office in ensuring the smooth running of day to day business. You would be responsible for your own live projects within the team, with exposure to senior management.
Day-to-day you may be...
- Managing product mail-outs, coming up with creative ideas for send outs to encourage social sharing and press coverage
- Management of media lists
- Help with supporting PR and influencer events, from PR launches to trips
- Work with external PR agency on a day to day basis
- Handling press calls & liaising with journalists
- Monitoring influencers, newspapers and magazines for coverage and scanning for distribution, to share PR teams wins with the wider teams
- Help the team with social media, this could be captions, taking images for social channels and scheduling
- Helping the team with sourcing influencers for paid partnerships, creating content briefs and speaking to influencer agents
- Ordering of product, stationary orders, post and couriers & press cuttings
- Work alongside the media team with paid media campaigns
You have...
In order to be successful in this role you will need to have:
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Understanding of the beauty business
- Understanding of communications tools
- Capacity to understand the bigger business picture
- Have a technical mind but keen to work within the heart of a business
- Numerate and PC literate: in particular with strong Excel skills
- Strong networking skills and the ability to interact with all areas of the business
- A good knowledge of the beauty influencer landscape
- A creative eye for social media content creation
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are currently under-represented in our organisation. We are signatories of the Race at Work Charter led by Business in the Community and are committed to improving employment opportunities for people of colour across the UK. We also welcome applications from LGB and Trans and non-binary candidates.
You are...
- Eligible to work in the UK
- In your second year at University on a course which enables you to take an Industrial Placement Year (unfortunately if you are graduated you are not eligible).
Next steps...
Once you click apply you will be asked some questions to check you are eligible for this role. These will questions around your current situation, whether you’re happy with the salary, location etc.
If you are eligible to apply you will then be sent a link via email to a Competency Assessment. In this we would like you to answer three competency questions, two written and one via video. Although there is no time limit on this the quicker you get it finished the quicker we can continue to move you through the process! The video element of the assessment is translated into a text and scored, so please don’t worry what you look like, just worry about what you’re saying!
If you have met our benchmark we will then send you some cognitive tests to complete. These will be sent via an email link and will give us a great idea on your numerical ability as well as testing you in a few other areas. Remember practise makes perfect so make sure you’re prepared when you give these a go!
We will then do a final review of your entire application and if successful, invite you to an Assessment Centre. Please be patient with us, sometimes it can take a few weeks before your application gets reviewed.
Our Assessment Centres this year will all be completely virtual; they will be running from when applications open until the roles are filled. These Assessment Centres are specific to function, so please be patient if you don’t get invited straight away – it might just be because your function’s Assessment Centre date isn’t until later on in the recruitment period!
Please note, if you apply for more than one role you will be put forward for the one we deem most suitable for you. If you have a strong preference, please only apply to that one role to ensure you are considered for the correct role.
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