Internship
The Harvard Common Press, a publisher of quality nonfiction books in the areas of cooking, childbirth, and parenting, seeks energetic undergraduate, graduate student, or recent-graduate interns in the marketing/sales and digital initiatives departments. Interns leave with a letter of recommendation, a stronger résumé, and valuable publishing experience. Harvard Common Press interns have gone on to work at such publishing companies as Random House, Addison-Wesley, Houghton Mifflin, Zoland Books, Stuff Magazine, Boston Phoenix, and Boston Magazine. Several interns have continued on to full-time positions at The Harvard Common Press.
Marketing and Sales Internship
Internships in marketing and sales afford first-hand experience and tangible job skills, from drafting an endorsement request or conducting market research, to helping with publicity mailings or representing the company at area trade shows. Internships are available for spring, fall and summer semesters (with a 12- to 20-hour per week commitment). All internships are unpaid. The press is a friendly and award-winning company with a staff of twelve located in a spacious and recently renovated loft in the South End of Boston.
Application deadlines:
Fall internship: July 15th
Spring internship: November 30th
Summer internship: April 15th
To apply, send resume and cover letter to:
Travis Dagenais
Harvard Common Press
535 Albany Street
Boston, MA 02118
or email to tdagenais@harvardcommonpress.com
No phone calls please.
Social Media Internship
The Harvard Common Press, a publisher of quality nonfiction books in the areas of cooking, pregnancy, and parenting, seeks an energetic and motivated undergraduate or graduate student in the social media outreach/PR department. Internships in this area offer opportunities for hands-on learning and development – applicants should be comfortable working in a self-directed and fluid environment where their feedback and contributions are valued and utilized. Internships are available starting in January 2012.
Social media interns are expected to be familiar with the major social media marketing platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google +, Pinterest, Flickr, and Stumbleupon among others, and familiarity with cooking/food related websites is helpful as well. These include cooking blogs, as well as websites such as Tastespotting and FoodGawker. Also, an interest in food/cooking is a plus, but not required.
Social media interns’ responsibilities include:
-Monitoring through social media sites to identify food/cooking related topics to which we can provide content
-Keeping track of Facebook groups in which we should be involved, including groups for our authors as well.
-Regularly posting to Facebook groups with recipe and food related content.
-Monitoring Twitter for mentions of food/cooking topics to which we can contribute.
-Food blog monitoring to identify relevant topics to which we can respond with either comments, content on our blog, or a call‐out of the topic to our readers.
-Setting up and monitoring internet alerts through Google Alerts and Social Oomph for relevant mentions of the company or cooking topics to which we can respond.
-Assist in planning content for our blog, HCPdishes, and also writing content for the blog.
-Assist in the creation of Wikipedia, Squidoo, Mahalo and Wet Paint articles.
-Assist in coordinating social media contests and events.
-Research into relevant social media content, including top tweet‐ups and other events.
Prior experience in these areas is a plus, especially as it relates to internet research and social media monitoring. Interested candidates should contact Adam Salomone at asalomone@harvardcommonpress.com. Please attach a resume and cover letter with any correspondence. Deadline: December 15.