So here’s the chance to change your career path with a one-week jobcation! We’ve approached eight of the UK’s best places to work and asked them to offer YOU one week work placements so you can take holiday from your current job to see if you really do want to swap careers. Impress and who knows what 2012 will hold for you.
Plus watch this space as we’ll have more companies signing up for our Jobcation campaign very soon...
(Please note all entrants must be over 18)
MARKS & SPENCER, LONDON
Join the lingerie design team working on trends for 2013 and beyond and be a part of the UK’s biggest lingerie brand, learning how the design process starts and finishes with the final on-shelf product.
HOW TO WIN: In no more than 300 words tell us why you want a placement with M&S, attach your CV and create a moodboard for A/W12 lingerie. Send this to company.mail@hearst.co.uk with the subject M&S JOBCATION. Deadline: 30th January 2012.
BIRMINGHAM’S CAPITAL FM
Go behind the scenes (for 2 weeks!) at Birmingham’s number-one hit music station and see what it takes to be a radio star, and how the team there put together the Capital Breakfast Show. It may help to do some research first, so tune into the Capital Breakfast Show with hosts Dan and Katy, weekday mornings 6-10am on 102.2 FM in Birmingham and across the UK on digital and www.capitalfm.com
HOW TO WIN: In no more than 300 words write about why you could be the next Captial FM radio star and send this, your CV and a link to a 1 minute YouTube clip of you presenting a radio segment to company.mail@hearst.co.uk with the subject “Capital FM Jobcation”. Deadline: 30th January 2012.
COMPANY.CO.UK, LONDON
Intern at Company HQ and you could be doing anything from snapping street-style shots to picking the must-have pieces from the high street, all while seeing what goes on behind the scenes at an award-winning magazine’s website.
HOW TO WIN: In no more than 300 words tell us about why you’d make the perfect Company.co.uk team member and what your favourite bit about the website is. Send this to company.mail@hearst.co.uk with the subject “Company.co.uk jobcation”. Deadline: 30th January 2012.
MISS SELFRIDGE, LONDON
Ever fancied a career in fashion marketing? This high-street fave (www.missselfridge.com) is offering one lucky reader the chance to intern with their marketing manager to see how a successful brand works.
HOW TO WIN: In no more than 300 words write about your favourite items in your wardrobe and send this and your CV to company.mail@hearst.co.uk with the subject “Miss Selfridge Jobcation” Deadline: 30th January 2012.
PANNONE LAW FIRM, MANCHESTER
Got dreams of working as a lawyer? The lovely people at this top Manchester law firm (www.pannone.com) are giving one Company reader the chance to see what it takes – and it’s not an intimate knowledge of Rupert Penry-Jones in Silk.
HOW TO WIN: In no more than 300 words tell us why you yearn for a career in law and send this and your CV to company.mail@hearst.co.uk with the subject “Pannone Jobcation” Deadline: 30th January 2012.
ENDEMOL, LONDON
ENDEMOL UK (www.endemoluk.com) is one of the largest independent production companies in Britain producing over 2,000 hours of telly a year. Think everything from Total Wipeout, Would I Lie to You? and Deal or No Deal to Secret Diary of a Call Girl, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Big Brother and Benidorm. So if you want a foot in TV’s door, this placement is made for you.
Endemol has just won a Cultural Diversity Award for Best Company too!
HOW TO WIN: In no more than 300 words tell us why you’d be perfect for Endemol and send this and your CV to company.mail@hearst.co.uk with the subject “Endemol Jobcation” Deadline: 30th January 2012.
TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS, LONDON
With authors including Terry Pratchett, Lee Child, Sophie Kinsella and Joanna Trollope on their, er, books, Transworld (www.booksattransworld.co.uk), which is part of Random House, is one of the biggest publishers in the UK. They’re offering work experience in their publicity department which will give you a broad overview of the publishing world and you’ll get to see how sales, marketing and editorial departments work too.
HOW TO WIN: In no more than 300 words write about your favourite book and send this and your CV to company.mail@hearst.co.uk with the subject “Transworld Jobcation” Deadline: 30th January 2012.
MALMAISON, READING
Want your new career to be in the tourism and hospitality business? This placement will offer you the chance to shadow the general manager at the Reading hotel, meet the communications director and get a real feel for how the hospitality industry works in one of the UK’s leading hotel chains (www.malmaison.com).
HOW TO WIN: In no more than 300 words tell us why you’d be perfect for the hospitality industry and send this and your CV to company.mail@hearst.co.uk with the subject “Malmaison Jobcation” Deadline: 30th January 2012.
