Career guidance
Numerous articles have been published in professional marketing magazine over the years that should help with your career. These include salary surveys, articles from marketers describing how it feels to work in particular types of firms, and guidance from experienced consultants on topics such as writing a CV, preparing a job specification, making the best of interviews and getting promoted.
Just scroll down the list, and click on any articles that look interesting. All are available in full text.
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Careerwatch
New year, new you
Steven Pearce offers some tips on how to increase your impact at
work and build a highly successful personal brand.
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February 2010, Steven Pearce (The Results Consultancy)
Opinion
Marketers as leaders
According to Amy Kilbane, smart marketers are not sherman tanks but fearless chameleons, knowing when to advance and when to hold back.They need to see themselves as intellectually equal to the partners surrounding them and not wait for others to direct them.
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December 2009, Amy Kilbane (LECG)
Careerwatch
New breed or different species?
She was one of the first marketers at a UK law firm back in 1989 and has consulted for hundreds of firms. Kim Tasso gives her view on the future challenges for marketing careers in the professions.
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November 2009, Kim Tasso (Practical Marketing Consultancy)
Careerwatch
The inside track on working for yourself
Sue Bramall looks at the best way to go about starting your own marketing consultancy – and what you need to know if you are going to 'fly solo'.
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September 2009, Sue Bramall (Berners Marketing)
Careerwatch
2004 to 2009: A Career Odyssey
How different can it be? Bruce Segall describes the ups and downs of moving from a large company to a smaller one.
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July 2009, Bruce Segall (Sirota Survey Intelligence)
Opinion
Marketing comes of age
Linda Stevens believes that this could be the dawning of a golden age for professional services marketing, as long as it is positioned correctly.
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May 2009, Linda Stevens (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP)
Viewpoint
Leading the relationship
Why isn’t my firm using my services the way that it
should, and what can I do about it?
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April 2009, Kelli Wight (Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP), Catherine Mitchell (GEM Communications Inc.)