Applications are now open for the Prepress Projects publishing internship programme for summer 2025.

Our internships are designed to allow you to get to know the company and us to get to know you. We use our internship programme as a means of recruiting new staff, and several of our current employees started out as interns. You can read about the internship experiences of some of them here.

While we can’t guarantee that an internship will lead to a long-term position with us, we can guarantee that the experience you gain will be relevant, useful and representative of what happens in a professional publishing company. And you get to meet nice people.

About us

We are a fully employee-owned small business based in Perth, Scotland, with clients worldwide. We currently have 16 employees.

With continuous recognition as Investors In People since 2005, and Investors In Young People since 2017, we are proud of our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We hold a Silver Award for Investors in People and a Gold Award for Investors in Young People, proving that we are among the best in supporting and developing our young talent.

We have a comprehensive training programme including both internal and external training courses, along with a scheme for providing financial support for long-term distance learning courses.

Our bright and spacious office is located in a modern office building close to the centre of Perth. All employees can take advantage of our flexible working policy, and more experienced staff also have the opportunity to work fully or partly from home.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership status, or pregnancy or maternity status.

Find out more about working for us

About the job

Our highly successful paid internship programme has run for many years and includes training, mentoring and coaching as you learn the ropes of working in publishing.

As a publishing intern, you'll help our production teams to deliver publications on schedule to the required level of quality. Your tasks will be tailored to the specific skills you bring but may include:

styling and preparing files for copy-editing
collating proofs and proofreading
some project management tasks.

The internship will run for a period of up to 13 weeks (start date to be mutually agreed). This is a full-time post (37.5 hours weekly) based at our office in Perth.

You will be kept busy and your contribution will certainly be valued. We can promise that you won’t be bored.

As a Living Wage Employer, we pay our interns a salary that is at least the real living wage. This year it is £2047.50 per calendar month.

About you

You must have an excellent command of English and at least a basic understanding of scientific terminology.

You should have, or be studying for, a degree in an academic or publishing subject, and this year we are particularly interested in candidates with a science or technology background.

Applications from postgraduate publishing students are welcome.

How to apply

If you are smart, resourceful, and interested, here is what to do:

tell us why you believe you would be suitable for this post
attach a full CV in MS Word or PDF format.

Send your application to Dr Lucy Harrier using our application form. Please let us know where you first saw this vacancy.

Applications close at noon on Friday 9 May 2025. All applications will be acknowledged. We will contact you if we wish to arrange an interview, which will include a short test.

Please read our website thoroughly before you apply! It contains important information about the work we do and what we want to see in a job application.

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