Public Relations Intern
Join Our Team at CLD PR!
This internship offers academic credit for students and is perfect for anyone looking to gain experience in public relations and the fashion industry. We are seeking hard-working self-starters who can thrive in a fast-paced environment. Interns are expected to work 1-3 days a week (you choose your days) from 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM, Monday through Friday.This is a 2-4 month commitment.
We have seven departments: Celebrity, Influencer, Media, Showroom, Events, Operations, and Business Development.
Showroom Team tasks include, but are not limited to: helping garner placements on celebrities and in editorial sections of magazines that use freelance stylists, doing pick ups/drop off's with merchandise, bagging up items, assisting stylists while in the showroom, merchandising and maintaining the aesthetics of the showrooms, gathering images to pitch to stylists for their clients upcoming events.
Celebrity/Influencer Teams tasks include, but are not limited to: helping garner placements on celebrities/influencers, assisting the gifting team with processing gifting requests, and outlook for any placements on celebrities/influencers.
Media Team tasks include, but are not limited to: placing clients in magazine and online fashion/trend stories, editorials for major magazines where the magazines have their own staff of stylists (Vogue, Elle, etc.), influencer outreach and gifting, social media management, ensuring any placements the celebrity team garnered are credited with designer information and secure placements of those shots in weekly/monthly magazines or online mentions, event planning/production, creating copy and pitches to send out for outreach to influencers and editors, and constant outlook for any placements of our clients products.
Events tasks include, but are not limited to: assisting and creating brand outreach lists of potential brands that may participate in our multi-brand events, admin assistance, and event production. There will be the occasional opportunities to work our events that are based in Los Angeles.
Operations will cover intake and out processing of inventory using Launchmetrics. Launchmetrics is a comprehensive inventory and event software that every department in our company uses on a daily basis. Operations also assists in personal and professional tasks for the CEO.Operations is in charge of all legal, human resources, and day-to-day business operations. While the majority of your internship will be focused on either celebrity or media departments, you will be asked to assist from time to time in the Operations Department as needed.
Business Development is similar to Operations in that it will not be the sole focus of your internship, but will have assistance as needed. Our Business Development team is in charge of researching new brands to outreach for representation. From this research, we then will start pitching these potential new clients with focused pitch materials.
Expectations of an ideal candidate:
- Self-driven with a willingness to meet and exceed expectations
- Independent
- Can handle a fast-pace environment
- Takes initiative, especially during slower periods
- Strong work ethic
- Burning desire to learn, serious ambition to be in the fashion industry
- GREAT attention to detail
- Sense of initiative, can work well with minimal direction
- Great decision making skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excels at research, utilizing all resources to gather information
- Team spirit
- Computer literate and some social networking (Office, Photoshop, Instagram, Tik Tok, blogging)
- Upbeat, high energy level
- Positive, can-do attitude, go-getter
- Organized, able to think logically
- Able to take constructive criticism
- Creative problem-solver
- Reliable and punctual
- Some exposure to fashion industry and/or fashion student
- Has a strong interest in the world of public relations
- Having a vehicle to do pick-ups/drop-offs to talent and stylists location (a major plus, but not mandatory)
- Owns laptop to use during internship
PLEASE NOTE: This position is unpaid. Applicants must be 18 or over to apply. By applying, you are certifying that you are 18+
Apply now and be part of our exciting journey!We are seeking interns with a strong interest in fashion, public relations, communications, and event production. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, adaptable to a fast-paced environment, reliable, a quick learner, a proactive go-getter, and possess excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
If you are passionate about these fields and meet these qualifications, we encourage you to apply and join our dynamic team.