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Work experience

The Penguin Group (UK) encourages people to undertake work experience and provides a number of opportunities in our business throughout the year. We offer 2 week placements in the following departments:
  • DK Publicity (DK Pub)
  • Penguin Press Publicity (Press Pub)
  • Penguin General Publicity (Gen Pub)
  • Rough Guides Publicity (RG Pub)
  • Penguin Press Editorial (Press Ed)
As part of your work experience you will be expected to perform a range of tasks, which may include:
  • general office duties
  • taking enquiries from internal and external clients
  • developing press releases
  • researching publicity opportunities
  • copy writing
  • responding to readers letters and emails
Your manager will work to make sure that you do valuable work and get a real feel for what it is like to work in our business.

If you would like to apply for work experience with The Penguin Group (UK) please send your covering letter and CV to workexperience@penguin.co.uk (remember to include your contact details).

Important: Please read before applying

Applications will only be processed if sent by email - we cannot accept posted applications.

In order that we can process your application please tell us when you will be available by filling in the subject line of your email in the following format:

Subject: July-Aug

Please note you should not apply more than three months prior to when you are free. We can only accept applications from people 18 years old and over and due to the number of applications we receive we are not able to reply to every one. If an appropriate opportunity should arise, someone will contact you to arrange your placement.

Thank you for your interest in The Penguin Group (UK).
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