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Internship Program
The internship program at The Pohly Company offers lots of choice — and choice experience — to college juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Our internships are available in key specialties needed to develop a successful customer communications program: creative services, revenue development/marketing, and marketing/account services. Although our internships are unpaid, interns arrange to earn academic credit while gaining career-building skills and applying them in a professional environment. Opportunities for an internship exist all year, and internships last for the duration of an academic term, with a minimum commitment of 16 hours per week.
Ad sales & Promotions Intern
Job Summary: Work with the revenue development department to support sales efforts on regional, national, and international accounts. Duties include day-to-day tasks, as well as involvement in large-scale promotions and efforts. Work closely with editorial, design, production, client services, and marketing staffs. Opportunities for hands-on experience in our busy office may include:
- • Maintaining competitive tracking and prospecting data for each publication
- • Assisting Associate Publisher in research relating to increasing existing advertising revenue and winning new advertising business
- • Supporting Marketing & Promotions Manager in creation of sales collateral, presentations, and other projects
- • Assisting in client contact and correspondence, from phone calls to proposals
- • Providing support to a large, national sales force
- • Attending weekly traffic, mapping, and creative meetings as well as department check-ins
Reports to: Marketing & Promotions Manager
Qualifications: Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Must be able to work on a variety of projects. Computer proficiency in word processing, MS Excel, and Internet research. Familiarity with database software a plus. Must be eager to learn and contribute in a team environment.
Interested? Contact us at internresumes@pohlyco.com
Editorial Intern
Job Summary: Assist the editorial department in the day-to-day tasks of magazine publishing. Help maintain the highest levels of editorial quality and client service on all our publications. Minimum commitment: 16 hours/week. Opportunities for hands-on experience in our busy workplace may include:
- • Research article topics
- • Write short items (e.g., sidebars) as assigned
- • Participate in story planning sessions
- • Proofread and fact-check articles
- • Assist readers with queries
- • Assist in related mailings for each publication
- • Attend issue review sessions
Reports to: Senior Editor
Qualifications: Strong communication skills, conscientious work habits, and attention to detail. Ability to work on a variety of projects under deadline pressure in team environment. Proficiency in basic word-processing essential.
Interested? Contact us at internresumes@pohlyco.com
Marketing Intern
Job Summary: Support the marketing services department in the day-to-day execution of client projects. Learn each client's marketing communications objectives and the communications strategy for reaching them. Work with ad sales, production, art, and edit staffs. Minimum commitment: 16 hours/week. Opportunities for hands-on experience in our busy workplace may include:
- • Support senior marketing services staff in developing and implementing marketing communication programs, budgets, and timelines
- • Support publisher in traffic requests for ad sales
- • Support written and oral presentation of programs and projects, including new business
- • Coordinate all functions associated with reprints from client publications
- • Learn initiation, process, scheduling, trafficking, quality control, trouble-shooting, and approval cycles for publications and projects
- • Assist in client correspondence, action, and distribution
- • Support coordination of all materials required for client meetings
Reports to: Senior Account Manager
Qualifications: Strong administrative, communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills. Word processing and computer proficiency. Excellent writing and strong proofreading abilities. Knowledge of marketing/account management. Able to multi-task and handle details.
Interested? Contact us at internresumes@pohlyco.com
Design Intern
Job Summary: Assist the art department in the daily requirements of magazine publishing. Assist with special projects that fall outside schedule deadlines. Help maintain the highest levels of quality and client service on all our publications. Opportunities for hands-on experience in our busy working environment may include:
- • Preliminary layout and desktop design of magazine pages and other materials
- • Photo research
- • Scanning photographs and illustrations
- • Color correction and retouching of scans
- • Logging in and returning photographic materials and illustrations sent to us by outside sources
- • Placement of images in existing page documents
- • Electronic file preparation (preparing Quark files for output)
Reports to: Art Director
Qualifications: Design skills; proficiency on a Macintosh platform, as well as in programs including QuarkXPress, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator; attention to detail; conscientious work habits; ability to work within a team structure; ability to work on a variety of projects under deadline pressure.
Interested? Contact us at internresumes@pohlyco.com
Business Development Marketing Intern
Job summary: Assist the business development department by supporting marketing efforts in order to attain new clients. Duties include day-to-day tasks as well as involvement in preparation for new business pitches. Opportunities for hands-on experience in our busy working environment may include:
- • Fulfillment of information requests with appropriate collateral packages and preparation of prospect correspondence and mailings
- • Conduct basic market research on prospective clients
- • Maintenance of and data entry to business development database
- • Coordinate all functions associated with reprints from client publications
- • Upkeep of inventory of business development material
- • Support preparation for both on-site and off-site pitches to prospective clients as required
- • Research and request copies of competitive publications
- • Maintenance of the Pohly publication and competitive publication files
Reports to: Business Development Specialist
Qualifications: Strong writing, communication and interpersonal skills. Must be able to work on a variety of projects. Computer proficiency in word processing, MS Excel, and Internet research. Familiarity with database software a plus. Ability to multitask and meet deadlines. Must be eager to learn and contribute in a team environment.
Interested? Contact us at internresumes@pohlyco.com
