Will you be donning a cap and gown this summer? Want to have an answer for when your family asks ‘what’s next?’?
Well look no further, as applications for the 2024 Clearbox graduate scheme are now open.
Your typical post-graduation day could look like:
- Keeping up to date with the daily news headlines, at home and elsewhere.
- Creating media materials for clients which are shared with local and national media outlets. This includes written press releases and video content.
- Sharing our clients’ good news stories with media outlets in the UK and Ireland.
- Building relationships with journalists, influencers and clients.
- Creating social media content for Clearbox’s social media channels, and those of our clients.
- Working on influencer and media lists that ensure that we’re keeping on top of movements in the industries.
- Contributing creative ideas to pitches for new and existing clients.
We spend Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays together in our office in Belfast and Tuesdays and Thursdays working from home. Salary up to £20,000.
Benefits of the job include:
- Unlimited annual leave
- Health and life insurance and a health cash plan
- An early finish on office days to catch public transport home
- Pancake Fridays
- Unlimited access to fizzy beverages
And most importantly, you’ll have the opportunity to progress through the company with the help of a training plan that’s tailored to your professional wants and needs.
Last year, we won the Best Employee Development Programme award at the Irish News Workplace and Employment Awards, and our communications manager Amy can vouch for it.
She says: “I started my career at Clearbox in a graduate role, and it was my entry into both PR and the working world. My background is in literature and academic writing, so I was looking for a job that would allow me to build on the skills I’d developed at uni and apply them to something new.
“Almost five years later, here I am, bashing out several thousand words a year as a communications manager.
“I knew so little about PR when I joined Clearbox, and now I’m a confident, trusted PR professional with experience working for some of the world’s biggest brands - that’s a testament to what Clearbox has helped me achieve."
Lauren and Sofia were hired through our graduate programme last summer.
Here’s what they have to say about the scheme:
Sofia: “A graduate role at Clearbox is an exciting opportunity to work alongside a brilliant team, on world-class clients, and to work in a company that truly cares about its employees. Throughout the application process for the graduate role last year, the team could not have been more supportive and encouraging. If all of that doesn’t motivate you to apply, I don’t know what will!”
Lauren: “I couldn’t recommend the Clearbox graduate role more. After leaving university with a degree in English with Creative Writing, I wasn’t sure what to do with myself. I thought the only option for me was teaching – but I was so wrong.
If you like to write, PR is for you. If you like to talk to people, PR is for you. If you like working as part of a team, PR is for you. If you like unlimited holidays, work from abroad days and coke zero… Clearbox is for you!
So much of my skill set has been put to use and developed since I started at Clearbox in June 2023. The training and support I have received has been next to none, and I’ve gone from having no idea what to do with my life to loving my job and feeling (finally) settled.
I don’t think there’s a better place to kickstart your career in the PR industry. Not only will you be working with a variety of exciting, household-name clients, but you’ll be also working alongside a fabulous team with a great company culture. You’ll be cheered on and supported to learn, grow and progress. I have had so many incredible opportunities so far – and I’m only eight months in!”
You in?
To apply:
Email your application to hello@clearboxcommunications.com by 5pm on 22nd March 2024.
