Ad Agency Seeking Liberal Arts Grads For Interns

Wieden & Kennedy in London is launching a “talent hub” in September for 12 people with non-advertising backgrounds to work solving W&K client problems and take on clients of its own.

The project, called Platform, isn’t officially called an internship, but the staffers can work there for a maximum of nine months, be paid fairly low wages, and have the prospect of being hired on at W&K full-time after. Sounds like an internship to us.

Platform’s an outgrowth of a smaller project which employed four people without advertising backgrounds to do basically the same stuff.

“[Clients] love the fact that we are experimenting,” Sam Brookes told

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