PR Graduate Internship

Graduate Internship, Catalyst

Golin Los Angeles is hiring an graduate intern to join our team. With a focus to monitor and analyze earned and social media for top brands. You'll collaborate with internal and external teams to provide insightful reports that showcase the value of our award-winning work. This person will assist in coordinating and executing the day-to-day PR responsibilities.

About Golin:

Golin is a global, award-winning public relations agency that helps company create change that matters. Together, we discover powerful human truths that bind us, create with bravery, and collaborate inclusively and obsessively. Golin's 1700 global employees operate across 50+ offices worldwide, allowing us to provide our clients with comprehensive solutions for multi-market, regional and global communications programs.

Every agency is talking about AI. At Golin, we are using AI to rewrite the rules of PR. We're even promising to become the first fully AI-integrated agency by 2026. We are committed to upskilling our workforce, democratizing access to tools, and integrating AI into our daily work to maximize the value we deliver to our clients.

We're especially committed to going all in for our people. We challenge our employees to be courageously happy and have empowered them to do so by offering our LifeTime benefits program. LifeTime offers flexible time off, enhanced family care, generous health and wellness benefits, workplace hybrid flexibility, and a monthly LifeTime stipend for the gym or hobbies.

Our expertise ranges from brand-building and cutting-edge digital content to corporate reputation, healthcare advocacy and measurement. Golin aligns earned-first, data-driven creative with the customer journey through our collaborative G4 Model to deliver maximum impact for clients. Our roster includes many of the largest CPG, retail, food, healthcare technology and consumer service companies in the world.

What You'll Do:

• Daily and campaign monitoring of earned media news and social dashboards and compile daily morning monitoring reports and morning and afternoon campaign monitoring
• Insert all coverage into excel grids or other team formats with active links
• Flag company or product issues immediately to supervisor
• Track competitor news and flag immediately to supervisor
• Learn and exhibit solid understanding of client information including general business, issues of relevance to the industry, individual brand/product campaigns
• Ensure team members are kept updated on client developments
• Participate in client and account team interaction, assist in creating client meeting and call reports, activity reports, status documents, and results reports for agency team
• Interact with team members to provide status updates and project completion
• Participate in and attend appropriate meetings
• Have a strong eye for detail and quality control of ideas for team correspondence and plans
• Understand traditional media and digital and social media solutions and position them for the team to share in collaboration with subject-matter experts
• Proactively, reactively and opportunistically engage with online audiences following guidelines agreed upon by the client
• Analyze community insights, spot trends and make recommendations based on those insights
• Marry culture and the interests of the client's community through always-ready content development
• Integrate planned content that addresses client events, launches and announcements and help boost with paid media as necessary
• Attend events, if needed, and create compelling content on the spot
• Exhibit solid understanding of client information including general business strategy, issues of relevance to the industry and company values
• Interact with team members to promote integration between content and community
• Work closely with the creative team for visual content needs, and the analytics team for content trend analysis, content optimization and community growth

Who You Are:

• You must have obtained at least a bachelor's degree
• You must be a champion of diverse talent who proactively cultivates an inclusive culture and uses cultural competence to drive agency and client's business forward
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to multi-task
• Meet deadlines under pressure and work independently
• Strong writing skills
• A collaborative style
• Solutions-oriented
• Accountable and responsible

**To be considered, your application process must be:

• Apply to this posting
• Upload as ONE PDF DOCUMENT - Your resume and responses to the essay questions below.
• Saved the PDF as: Last Name, First Name

Please answer ALLof the following in no more than 200 words per question:

1. Tell us about a time you've gone all in. Outside of showing up on time and giving us your best effort, how would you do that at Golin?
2. What's something brave you'd like to see a brand do? Why? Is there a topic or issue you feel a specific brand could/should address?
3. How do you keep up with the latest trends and cultural news?
4. How do you decide what trends are best for each brand (not everything is a fit for everyone)

**Please note, failure to complete the full application process may result in disqualification.

Golin has included the base salary range or hourly rate for this role. Actual compensation offered within the range will depend upon, among other factors: a candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience; actual ranges for current or former employees in the role; and market considerations.

Hourly range:

$22 per hour

Any request to schedule an interview and any legitimate offer of employment will only come from an authorized representative of Golin. We will never require an applicant to provide sensitive personally identifiable information in order to conduct an interview.

Golinis proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.

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