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| Internship
Opportunities
Spring and Summer 1999 If you are
interested in any of these internship opportunities, please send a resume
to the following:
Stephanie
Bennett
Recruitment and Development Specialist
5
Lands' End Lane
Dodgeville, WI 53595 | Fax: 608-935-4668
E-Mail: sdbenne@landsend.com |
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Internship
Benefits
Besides getting world-class experience as an intern with
Lands' End, you also get many additional benefits that make this
opportunity even more appealing. Read on...
All
internships are paid.
Assistance with relocation.
Since most of our internship opportunities are based in Dodgeville, a
number of interns will need to relocate for a semester or for the summer.
Lands' End will reimburse acceptable travel expenses incurred while the intern
was moving to begin the internship and for those travel expenses that incur
during nses that incur during the move back once the internship has
been completed.
Paid security deposits. Lands' End
will pay security deposits on apartments if an intern needs to relocate
for the internship as well as assist in the search for short-term
housing.
Casual work environment.. Leave your suits,
ties and skirts at home!
World-class activity center.
This facility is open to all employees, their immediate families and
up to two (2) guests. While you are there, you can take advantage of our
indoor pool or whirlpool, workout on the latest fitness equipment while
watching your favorite TV program on our cardio-theatre, attend a step or
box aerobic class or lift some weights. You can also join one of our
numerous intramural leagues for basketball, volleyball or soccer.
Internal Seminar Series (ISS). This seminar series provides an
opportunity to learn about Lands' End business functions and department
responsibilities through a series of presentations by Lands' End
Vice-Presidents and Directors. You will gain a foundation in how we make
decisions and learn about practices that have made us successful.
Employee Catalog/Outlet discount. Certainly one of the
favorite benefits!
Activities. Since many interns
come to Lands' End from all over the country, we give interns many
opportunities to get to know one another. Everything from cookouts, to
volleyball games, to baseball games, we want to make sure interns have fun as
well while they are working with us.
Accounting
| Preferred Degree: |
Accounting | | Offered: | Spring
- Summer (January through August) |
- Assisting with Fixed Asset physical inventory including review
and documentation of purchasing and retirement procedures
- Developing accounting procedures and policies for new start-up businesses
- Working with the development of major accounting systems including Standard
Costing System and Evaluated Receipts System
- Participating in
preparation and review of System and Evaluated Receipts System
- Participating in preparation and review of monthly financial statement
close process
Advertising
| Preferred Degrees: | Advertising, Marketing with an Advertising emphasis |
| Offered: |
Spring and Summer |
- Maintaining documentation on rate negotiations, media insertion
orders and ad placement performance
- Daily contact with outside
media vendors
- Maintaining cost records on all advertising development
and media expenditures
- Assisting in the creative development process
Art Direction
| Preferred Degrees: | Graphic
Design, Art with a Graphic Design emphasis |
| Offered: | Spring - Summer (January through August) |
| | Summer - Fall (May through December) |
- Assisting with the layout and design of the
catalogs
- Coordinating laydown shoots
- Editing film and
working with layout revisions
- Working with the design and layout of
BRC cards (mailer cards)
Communication
Development-Employee Communications
| Preferred Degrees: | Journalism, Communications |
| Offered: | Spring and Summer |
- Supporting the development of a company-wide communication plan
and assisting with the roll-out
- Demonstrated PC proficiency and
experience using Macintosh applications
- Working knowledge of
QuarkXPress and other desktop publishing tools
- Assisting with the
training of the new plan to several departments throughout the company
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Corporate
Sales-Marketing
| Preferred
Degrees: | Marketing |
| Offered: | Summer '99 |
- Working with National Account Executives to evaluate national account sales
opportunities, including demand analysis and financial justification
- Creating client proposals that address opportunities with Lands' End based
on strengths in merchandising, creative, quality and fulfillment
- Helping National Account Executives pitch proposals and following up with
their closure, which may include occasional on-site visits
- Assisting National Accounts staff in implementing proposals through
operational processes
Design
| Preferred Degree: | Fashion/Apparel Design |
| Offered: | Summer |
- Drawing production flats
- Assembly of presentation boards
- Sketching and CAD work
- Mill sheet specification and processes
Direct Marketing
| Preferred Degrees: | Statistics (both undergrad and graduate), other majors that
focus on quantitative analysis |
| Offered: | Summer |
- Collecting, reporting and analyzing data using statistical software
packages such as SAS
- Analyzing product and media performance
and communicating findings to various business groups
- Conducting preliminary research and analysis for various business groups
Electronic Media (Internet)
| Preferred Degrees: | Technical Communications, Electronic Media/Commerce, Graphic
Design with a focus on Electronic Publishing |
| Offered: | Spring, Summer and Fall |
- Designing layouts for the Internet using the Macintosh as a
design tool
- Understtanding of HTML mark up language
- Taking
projects through the creative cycle from conception and design to final
electronic authoring
- Working with Internet Business Manager on
several ad-hoc projects
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Electronic
Publishing
| Preferred
Degrees: | Graphic Design, Art with a Graphic
Design emphasis | | Offered: | Spring - Summer
(January through August) Summer - Fall (May through December) |
- Building catalog pages in
QuarkXPress from provided materials (layout, copy and photography)
- Formatting and building catalog pages consistent with established graphic
standards
- Scanning transparencies and doing clipping paths and color
manipulation where necessary
- Working with Art Directors to
design and correct catalog pages
Employee
Services
| Preferred Degrees: |
Human Resource Management, Organizational
Communication | | Offered: | Summer - Fall (May
through December) |
- Working with Operations management and Employee Services staff to determine
peak hiring projections
- Developing targeted on-campus
recruitment programs in order to fill recruitment needs
- Managing the on-campus recruitment program at a local university
Facility Design
| Preferred
Degrees: | Interior Design/Space Planning,
Construction Engineering | | Offered: | Spring - Summer
(Januar | Interior Design/Space Planning, Construction
Engineering | | Offered: | Spring - Summer
(January through August) Summer - Fall (May through December) |
- Assisting with interviews, CAD work
and presentation materials for large building projects and
interdepartmental moves
- Responsible for the furniture Asset
management system and warehouse inventory reports
- Handling
daily requests from departments for miscellaneous items (i.e. files,
chairs)
Facility Planning
| Preferred Degrees: | Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial
Technology | | Offered: | Spring - Summer
(January through August) Summer - Fall (May through December) |
- Conducting studies of warehouse
operations to document methods and procedures for further analysis
- Verifying building, equipment, and office layout dimensions
- Collecting and analyzing data using a variety of PC software (i.e. Lotus
spreadsheets, databases and/or simulation models)
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Finance
| Preferred Degree: | Finance, Accounting |
| Offered: | Summer - Fall (May through December) |
- Working with Finance group on analysis
projects in areas such as corporate tax and corporate budgeting and
planning
- Assisting in projects focused on increasing efficiencies in
operations
- Working with several areas of the Financial Services
department on ad-hoc projects
Information
Services
| Preferred Degrees: |
MCS, MIS, CIS, Computer Science |
| Offered: | Spring, Summer and Fall |
- Developing programs and documentation
- Coding, testing
and debugging programs
- Developing specifications and test plans
- Working with various business groups on projects which support their
specific business needs
International
| Preferred Degrees: | International Business, Retailing with background in
International Business | | Offered: | Summer |
- Working with US-based Lands' End
Japan team on communication related projects
- Assisting Inventory and
Merchandising teams with analysis projects relating to the Lands' End
Japan business
- Working with the Japan-based Lands' End team via
teleconferencing
- Educational background and familiarity with the
Japanese language is a definite plus
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International-Export Team
| Preferred Degrees: | International Business with background in Marketing,
Statistics | | Offered: | Summer |
- Working with Export Business
Manager on housefile segmentation/selection processes
- Assisting with
mail plan development and list rental analysis
- Gaining exposure to
operations activities relating to International catalog and package
delivery
- Obtaining an understanding of levers that effect P&L
Intranet Development-Employee Communications
| Preferred Degrees: | Communication Technology, Communications or Technology degree
with a focus and/or work experience in internet/intranet
development | | Offered: | Spring and
Summer | - Working with
several departments on content development
- Transforming print
documents into an appropriate format for Intranet use
- Demonstrated PC
proficiency and experience using Macintosh applications and desktop
publishing applications
Inventory
| Preferred Degrees: |
Distribution Management, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Business
and Retailing with an additional analytical coursework. |
| Offered: |
Spring, Summer and Fall |
- Pre-season planning and forecasting and
extensive sales trend analysis
- Learning inventory concepts and
strategies for direct marketing
- Tracking of manufacturing process
- Ad-hoc project analysis
Market Research
| Preferred Degree: | Market Research (either Graduate or undergraduate) |
| Offered: |
Summer |
- Assisting team with consumer research (primary and secondary) which impact
marketing decisions for the company
- Designing the study,
questionnaire development, data collection and analysis
- Presenting
results of study through a final presentation and report to the team and
other departments impacted by results
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Media Relations
| Preferred Degrees: | Public
Relations, Journalism, Consumer Marketing, English with a Marketing
background | | Offered: | Summer or Summer -
Fall (May through December) |
- Working with Media Relations product team on a PR campaign focusing on a
particular product
- Researching and writing PR materials such as
fact sheets, captions, press releases, memo's and cover letters)
- Developing a media list and learning how to pitch a store to selected media
- Assisting with ad-hoc projects on a daily basis Developing a media
list and learning how to pitch a store to selected media
- Assisting
with ad-hoc projects on a daily basis
Merchandising
| Preferred
Degrees: | Apparel/Fashion Merchandising,
Retailing | | Offered: | Summer |
- Assisting the merchants to drive
specific categories through product development
- Developing
competitive analysis for review
- Creating spreadsheets for analysis by
team members based on ad-hoc projects directed by the Merchant
- Preparing business review books
Merchandise
Accessorizer
| Preferred
Degrees: | Apparel/Fashion Merchandising,
Retailing | | Offered: | Summer |
- Assisting accessorizers on
creatively accessorizing all product for catalogs, ensuring the best
product presentation to enhance sales by working with the Merchandising,
Creative and Design teams
- Understanding of current fashion trends and
a knowledge of textiles and fabrics
- Attending merchandising concept
meetings and assisting with style shows
Operations
| Preferred
Degrees: | Business Management, Operations
Management, Supervisory Management | | Offered: | Summer
- Fall (June through December) |
- Hands-on training in areas of operations in either the Distribution Center
or Corporate Sales production areas
- Developing management style
through a series of workshops/training sessions offered
- Training and
supervising a staff of new employees through our peak season
- Conducting performance evaluations and providing guidance when necessary
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Quality
| Preferred Degrees: | Apparel
Design/Manufacturing, Clothing and Textiles |
| Offered: | Spring, Summer and Fall |
- Product and specification development
- Fit evaluation
and physical testing of fabrics
- Statistical analysis of product
quality per ad-hoc analysis
Retail
| Preferred Degrees: | Retailing, Apparel Merchandising, Fashion
Merchandising | | Offered: | Spring, Summer and
Fall | - Hands-on
training in a store environment, plus working with corporate staff on
ad-hoc projects
- Assisting with all facets of running the store
including merchandising, monitoring inventory levels and accountability
for the store's overall operations
- Setting up an entire ad plan and
overseeing execution of that plan
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