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​Build Brands. Build Careers.

There was a lot to take from this year’s Marketing Institute Ireland Annual Conference.From Carolan Lennon opening the day with real clarity and perspective, to Laura Dowling (The Fabu Pharmacist...

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Temporary Marketing Talent: A Client Insight

​In today’s fast-moving business environment, marketing teams are under constant pressure to deliver, whether that’s launching campaigns, driving leads, managing brand visibility or responding to...

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How to Write an Excellent CV (and Actually Get It Read!)

Your CV is one of the most important documents you’ll ever write in your career - and yet it’s often rushed, recycled, or treated like a chore. Your CV is a representation of you. It’s your profe...

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​The Rise of Specialist Marketing Roles: What It Means for Your Career

​​Marketing has evolved beyond the broad “jack-of-all-trades” roles of the past. Today, companies are building specialist teams that focus on SEO, content strategy, performance marketing, and AI-dr...

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Redundancy In Marketing Finding Your Next Step Without  Losing Confidence

​Redundancy in Marketing: Finding Your Next Step Without Losing Confidence

Redundancy is never easy. Even in a field as dynamic and creative as marketing, restructures, mergers, budget cuts, or a shift in strategy can leave brilliant marketers suddenly back on the job ...

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Using Ai In Job Applications

​Using AI in Job Applications: Smart Support or Risky Shortcut?

In today’s competitive job market, many marketing job seekers are turning to AI tools to streamline and strengthen their applications. From polishing their CVs to generating cover letters, tools ...

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Mentoring and Coaching

​​The Power of Mentoring and Executive Coaching: Essential Benefits for Marketing ProfessionalsIn a competitive and ever-evolving field like marketing, the guidance of a mentor or executive coach...

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Career Guidance and Support

​Why Partnering with a Specialist Recruitment Agency Can Elevate Your Career Transition Changing jobs is a major step, one that can shape your career. While navigating the job market alone can feel...

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Marketing the Marketer

​Working in marketing, you’ve probably focused on building your company’s brand, doing a competitive analysis as well as looking at what the business can be doing to promote and enhance itself. But...

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Tips For Successful Salary Negotiation

​Negotiating your salary is often intimidating, with 68% of mid to senior level marketing professionals consistently engaging in this pivotal conversation, and over 32% avoiding it entirely. Stag...

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Why November Is Key For Hiring

Why November Is Key For Hiring

​Why November is a great time for hiring! Hiring plans for the coming year frequently top agendas in board meetings across the country in October and November. Budgets are decided, staffing requi...

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Marketing Roles With Purpose

Marketing Roles With Purpose

​The whole concept of work has shifted dramatically in recent years. The pandemic has brought the “work-life balance” issue to the fore once again and employers, in a drive to retain key staff ha...

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Content Creator Vs Subject Matter Expert

Content Creator Vs Subject Matter Expert

Content Creator Vs Subject Matter ExpertHire for Talent or Knowledge – that is the question!​​When it comes to marketing, content is king! As marketing recruiters, we’ve witnessed the rise in dem...

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5 Things Marketing Professionals Want In A Job

5 Things Marketing Professionals Want In A Role

​From the Great Return to the Great Resignation and now to the Great Re-evaluation, today’s workforce has gone through a major upheaval in the last two years, mostly for the better.Nowhere is this...

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Alternatives Career Trajectory Series 5- How to prepare for a competency based interview

Alternatives Career Trajectory Series 5We have collated and updated all our career hints, tips, advice and insights from the last 21 years of helping marketers build their careers. Now we’re deligh...

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Alternatives Career Trajectory Series 4- How to succeed at interview

The Alternatives Career Trajectory Series ​Our Career Trajectory series covers: How to plan & manage your career Building your professional marketing competencies How to write a winning CV How to s...

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Alternatives Career Trajectory Series 3 - How to write a winning CV

The Alternatives Career Trajectory Series​ 3 How to plan & manage your career Building your professional marketing competencies How to write a winning CV How to succeed at interview How to prepare ...

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Alternatives Career Trajectory Series 2- Building your professional marketing competencies

The Alternatives Career Trajectory Series 2 ​​How to plan & manage your career Building your professional marketing competencies How to write a winning CV How to succeed at interview How to prepare...

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Alternatives Career Trajectory Series 1 - How to plan and manage your career

We have collated and updated all our career hints, tips, advice and insights from the last 21 years of helping marketers build their careers. Now we’re delighted to share this with you through our ...

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Landing the perfect marketing role as a Graduate

Landing your perfect marketing roleWe recently ran a career advice session with the Marketing institute of Ireland (www.mii.ie), to help graduates land the perfect marketing role. We shared our tip...

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