Apply, apply... apply

Today I applied for:

• online editorial beauty internship at International Life magazine
• fashion internship at Reveal magazine
  
  Reveal's busy and vibrant fashion, beauty and lifestyle desk is looking for a full time intern for a period of nine months. As well as knowing Cheryl Cole's wardrobe like the back of your hand, you should be versatile, super-organised, and have a great "can-do" attitude. You should be able to turn your hand to anything from assisting the beauty editor with in-mag awards, to dealing with PRs on the phone, as well as making sure that clothes are returned promptly to PRs, and the fashion cupboard is the tidiest in the building. You will be required to assist stylists on shoots, and with call-ins and research for features. Ideally you will have already have completed a substantial amount of work experience on a weekly magazine, and be available to start as soon as possible. Send your CV and letter of application by email, headed REVEAL INTERN POSITION to Wendy Rigg, Reveal magazine,4th floor, 33 Broadwick Street, London W1F 0DQ. or email wendy.rigg@natmags.co.uk

(I know I said I wasn't going to apply for internships, but any shot is worth a shot!)

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I received this response from Look magazine yesterday:

'Thank you for your email D-,
Unfortunately, all work placements have been allocated but I shall pass on your details to the team in the event of any additional positions arising.
Thank you for your interest in LOOK magazine
Kindest regards
HF
Office Manager'

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To receive two very nice email replies the morning after slogging for hours sending a zillion emails is quite inspiring. And it completely put to bed my expectations of not receiving any replies at all!

Reveal magazine emailed back from my follow-up email, asking if I was free Tuesday for a phone interview. They don't seem very keen to make it happen and get me on board; and I am only free in my lunch break or after 4.45pm on Tues due to work experience, so even though I reaaaaaaally want it, I'm not holding out too much for this one.

And I also received this response from Red magazine:

'Dear D,
Thank you for your email requesting work experience at Red.
Unfortunately we do not have any spare placements available for the next few months. However, we will keep your CV on file and get in touch should we have any cancellations. Please do also contact us again later in the summer when we will be booking people in for November/December placements.
Apologies but good luck with your search.
Kind Regards
AW
Red Magazine'

Which, even though it isn't a 'Yes come and work at our magazine we would love to have you there', it's very nice and encouraging and I'll definitely be emailing back after my work experience at more to try and book myself a winter placement.

More applications...

Been so busy with work and etc this week that I've only just got around to applying for work experience with my local magazines. I've just this second sent the emails out, so fingers crosssed......