Christie's UK Graduate Internships

What is a Graduate Intern?
Christie’s allows successful applicants to spend six months working within the Company gaining an insight into the work of an international auction house and observing the day-to-day operations.

The programme is run for the benefit of applicants with a genuine interest in art, business or a career in the Art World. It aims, by allowing interns to immerse themselves in the practical operations of the company, to provide an insight into Christie’s work and its role in the Art World.

Practical Experience/ Objectives
Christie’s believes that experience is best gained through practical involvement in the activities of our departments. As a result Graduate Interns will be given the opportunity to participate in ways which are designed to enable them to gain an overview of each different aspect of the department’s activities.

Normal tasks allocated include:

• Administration
• Archiving
• Catalogue notes
• Research
• Managing libraries
• Helping to set up exhibitions
• Cover phones
• Specific projects

Terms, Conditions and Payment
Graduate Interns will be employed on a six month fixed-term temporary contract with an initial one month probationary period at the beginning of the programme. Graduate Interns will be entitled to £225 per week. After 3 months graduates can join the corporate gym. There are two intakes a year in January and July. To allow others an opportunity to gain experience we regret that Internships cannot extend beyond a total duration of 12 months.

Hours
The standard hours worked by Christie’s are 9:00am to 5:00pm. In order to ensure that Graduate Interns benefit to the greatest extent possible from their experiences at Christie’s we recommend that they keep to these hours.

Many of Christie’s most exciting and interesting events and activities such as major sales and functions take place in the evenings. We strongly recommend that Graduate Interns become involved in these events – if possible by taking an active role in their organisation.

Dress Code
Professional and appropriate attire is expected of all Graduate Interns. For women this means dresses, skirts or tailored trouser suits. Men must wear a suit and tie. Jackets must always be worn in public areas.

Choice of Department
Graduate Interns will be allocated to a department depending on their specified choice and availability. Although we do everything in our power to place them in the department of their choice, this is not always possible due to the number of applicants and places available in those departments. Please be assured that wherever individuals are placed they will gain an overall insight into Christie's, whether it is in a specialist, business or administrative department.

Eligibility
We undertake a selection process based on formal criteria, the application form and/or an interview. Examples of the key criteria include:

• History of Art Graduate (or other relevant major) and/ or a minimum of 12 months work experience in an art related field
• Language Skills (fluent in English)
• Ability to demonstrate client facing experience

How to apply
Click here to submit your application online

We regret that demand for Graduate Internships usually exceeds availability of places on the scheme.

Working Documentation
Applicants from abroad must also be able to demonstrate to our satisfaction that they have all necessary permissions and papers to enable them to attend at Christie's as a Graduate Intern. We do not organise Visas for those individuals coming from abroad—they must arrange this themselves.

Graduate Internship dates and application deadlines

30 June – 29 December 2009 4 January - 25 June 2010

Deadline for applications: 11 April 2009 Deadline for applications: 18 October 2009

Download Graduate Internship Guidelines