Placement opportunities at Form
We are often on the look our for placement students - so if you are a graduate or in your final year at college, feel free to apply bearing in mind the following:

What we look for from a placement student:

• Graduates from a graphic design course or 2nd/3rd year students currently studying.
• Must be keen, motivated and passionate about design.
• Must know CS (esp InDesign and Photoshop otherwise you wouldn’t be able to help out on on-going projects).
• Be aware about meeting deadlines and working to time restraints.
• Willing to help out on all levels - from artworking adverts, to making mock-ups, to running errands, scanning, helping with mailouts and sometimes working on live client briefs.

We offer £80 per (5 day) week to cover travel and lunch. In return we think you can gain valuable knowledge about a small, busy, high profile studio. Most placement students tell us that doing a placement at Form has opened doors - and some placements have been offered a full time job with us.

To apply for placement send:

• A covering email
• CV
• PDF of 3-4 work pieces (3MB max)

to placement@form.uk.com

Our advice

There are many, many talented designers out there. Bear in mind we get literally hundreds of applications from designers wanting to work (or do placements) with us. We sadly do not have time to reply to them all. If you want to apply for a job with us, or in fact apply to any design agency, do yourself a favour and consider the following tips for free.

1. Find out who the best person is to contact: If it’s the art director or partner, find out their names. There’s nothing worse than a standard letter starting ‘Dear Sir/Madam’, and certainly not ‘yo’ (it happens). What this says to us is; if you can’t even be bothered to find out who you’re writing to, you can’t be that keen in the first place, so goodbye.

2. Find out the best way your potential boss would like to receive your work: By post or by email. If you send a 5MB pdf unannounced, just think about all the other potentials doing that, and how it will clog the server, and will probably be deleted. Hardly the best introduction from a stranger. And you have destroyed your chances on the first hurdle. If you have to send a pdf, keep it tight; 2MB just about fits the bill - but ask first!

3. Many potential employers still prefer the good old fashioned way of receiving a well designed, informative letter: You’d be amazed at how many letters and CV’s we’ve received as standard Word docs set in a default 12pt Times Roman font - you are a designer and you have one chance to communicate and show off your skills.