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Houghton Mifflin Company’s College Division
offers a limited number of summer internship positions in several
of its departments: Editorial, Marketing and Advertising, Art and Design,
Production, Rights and Permissions, Custom Publishing, and Software Development.
Editorial interns work in specific discipline areas, including History,
World Languages (Modern Languages and ESL), Accounting and Business, Economics,
English Composition and Literature, Mathematics, Science, Psychology, and
Education and Political Science.
The ideal candidate for a College Division internship position is a college
sophomore, junior, or graduate student whose verbal skills are well developed
and who is majoring in a field related to the work of one of our departments.
Preference is given to candidates who have a demonstrated interest in publishing.
The intern works with experienced personnel, and the amount of direct teaching
and supervision typically ranges from one to five hours per week.
The length of the internship is usually three months (June, July, and August).
Positions are full-time (35 hours/week) in order to make the experience meaningful for
the intern and useful for the supervisor. Students are paid on an hourly
basis.
Each interested student should submit a hard copy résumé and
a cover letter, starting January 1 and ending March 30, to:
Houghton Mifflin Company
College Division, Internship Coordinator
222 Berkeley Street,
Boston, MA 02116-3764
or email your cover letter and resume to Abby_Straskulic@hmco.com.
Decisions concerning the availability of positions are made in March and
April. Selected applicants will be contacted for telephone interviews as
positions become available.
Editorial
Assisting with market research, reviewer calling, ancillary and supplement
development, manuscript preparation, web site comparisons, preparation of
photo specifications and art manuscript, accuracy checking, sales meeting
preparation, participating in focus groups and performing clerical duties.
Marketing and Advertising
Preparing promotional material for sales conferences and conventions, updating
web sites, helping with market research and market surveys, preparing mailings,
ordering books, proofing marketing material, sending out correspondence
and performing clerical duties.
Production Art and Design
Assisting with all aspects of art and design relating to textbook production.
Trafficking and checking art proof using Illustrator and Photoshop, assisting
with design and layout using QuarkXPress, checking scan proofs and film
flats, maintaining the design bank, and performing clerical duties.
Production
Helping with all phases of page proof. Creating art and photo cutlists,
preparing manuscript for copyediting and composition, proofing art, preparing
and proofing frontmatter and endmatter, checking galleys and final page
proofs, creating table of contents, adding credit lines, checking art placement,
checking film flats and performing clerical duties.
Rights and Permissions
Assisting with phone and internet research, making follow-up calls and sending
letters to rightsholders requesting permissions, tracking payment requests,
requesting reprints, processing incoming checks, entering data using FileMaker
Pro or Access and performing clerical duties.
Custom Publishing
Assisting with all facets of project production. Creating frontmatter and
endmatter using QuarkXPress, adding folios, doing paste-up work, print ordering,
rebinding and performing clerical duties.
Software Development
Testing and file formatting using HTML and/or XML tagging, analyzing content
data, determining quality assurance, running scripts, verifying files, logging
bugs, copying files, preparing software for delivery and performing clerical
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