PR Paid Placement
Duration: 12 Months, starting summer 2017
Application criteria and deadlines: We expect more than simply bog standard CVs and covering letters so if you are interested in working with us, get your thinking cap on and come up with an ingenious way to capture our attention. We love to see examples of your writing too – including blogs. Applications to [email protected] by 1st March 2017
Salary: Competitive
Benefits
Of course we work hard and play hard. We also care about our colleagues and have a supportive, empowering community, where we work together for the greater good, not individual glory.
Regular coaching and training sessions ensure on-the-job development. Thanks to our internal monthly awards scheme and peer to peer recognition, staff can earn plaudits and real life benefits from extra holiday to retail vouchers – simply by doing their job.
Job Description
You will get involved in all aspects of PR from writing blogs and pitching ideas to journalists to working on launch events and coming up with brilliant content for social media accounts. Our ideal candidate must demonstrate the following values:

  • Always seeking to make a tangible difference
  • Dogged determination & tenacious tenacity
  • Inquisitiveness to try news things
  • Thirst to improve
  • Vibrancy
  • Honesty
  • Passion
  • Maturity

Check out our 2015/16 Placement Student, Meabh’s experiences here:

 

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Rick Guttridge

Rick Guttridge

Founder and CEO

Rick Guttridge is the Founder and CEO of Smoking Gun, the PR, influencer and social media agency built around a clear belief: communications should not just create noise, but prove measurable business impact. With more than 25 years’ experience in PR, Rick has helped major brands improve visibility, likeability and memorability through ingenious communications across sectors including FMCG, pets, homes and interiors, mother & baby, health and wellbeing, and personal finance.