Finding my first career job?

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

I recently graduated from a Marketing program at college. I took a two year program which gave me a diploma, and I took an extra year which gave me an advanced diploma. I am now ready to search for a career job.

My only question is...how do I do this? I've been going through Indeed.com and applying at a few places. I have LinkedIn. But what else can I do, and what advice could someone who's been here and done this give me?

Thanks!

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[Kairi Zaide]

I would ask @G F O P if I were you. He's an expert in that kind of stuff.

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

I would ask @G F O P if I were you. He's an expert in that kind of stuff.

Thanks, I'll PM him.

 

[alko]

Question is , what do you want at beginning? Earn big money?

 

[Conrad McBenis]

Thanks, I'll PM him.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

I have a marketing degree as well and ended up on the analyst side of the house.

Honestly, I love it. Its pretty easy work overall, and the coding/analyst skills have an ever increasing demand as more and more data is created in business. There is also a lot of opportunity to advance and get quality face time with executive level management. A good amount of data analyst positions are running reports/dashboards directly for high level management.

And it pays well.

Really though, best advice I can give is:

1. dont pass on applying to a job because you dont meet 1-2 of the requirements. companies will either train or overlook certain things. also a lot of those requirements are 'would like to have' not 'minimum requirement'

2. dont limit yourself just to marketing specific jobs. with a marketing degree you can get into other business areas like analyst, project management, sales, etc.

3. dont believe any insurance sales job pitch. they're all the same garbage. and if you ever walk into an interview and its a group interview with at least 3 candidates at once, walk out.

 

[Bumpus]

Step 1: Wear your framed diploma on a gold chain around your neck.
Step 2: Walk around your city's financial district.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit.

 

[Cochese]

You will probably end up working in a field totally unrelated to your degree.

 

[John Price]

Thanks, I'll PM him.

www.indeed.com

 

[SeattleSportsFan]

Seeing how the economy is poor, it might take you awhile to find a job. Good luck though!

 

[Jumptheshark]

You will probably end up working in a field totally unrelated to your degree.

I am curious where he got his degree from and whether or not degree is recognized by all companies. Marketing degree usually take four years not two. So it sounds like he went to a community collage. Since he is asking us, if he is serious, I would question why his degree did not cover job hunting or making the degree work for. Also is it a degree( where it is BA) or is it a diploma? There is a difference. I know the business degree I earned 2 years the built in marketing portion had me focus on a major and minor for marketing ( major was social media and minor was target marketing via yes no answers)

His wording of the question leaves me with more questions then answers with how to help him because marketing is a wide subject most people who take it have some idea how they want use their degree

 

[CRM 114]

Seeing how the economy is poor, it might take you awhile to find a job. Good luck though!

Are you a moron?

Thanks,

 

[SeattleSportsFan]

Are you a moron?

Thanks,

No I'm not but are you? There are thousands and thousands of people struggling to find jobs and people are getting laid off more than ever in the last twenty years or so.

By the way, nice childish comment you made.

 

[Cheese Wagstaff]

www.indeed.com

Are you actually looking for a job presently?

 

[Conrad McBenis]

Are you actually looking for a job presently?

LMAO

This post is hilarious... I know you know the answer to this.

 

[IceNeophyte]

I recently graduated from a Marketing program at college. I took a two year program which gave me a diploma, and I took an extra year which gave me an advanced diploma. I am now ready to search for a career job.

My only question is...how do I do this? I've been going through Indeed.com and applying at a few places. I have LinkedIn. But what else can I do, and what advice could someone who's been here and done this give me?

Thanks!

Just send letters of interest explaining that you are a Targaryen.

As has been mentioned, what degree you have makes a huge difference. The difference between an AA and a BA is a marketing coordinator/clerk position vs an entry level market analyst, sales coordinator (path to sales manager), etc. Put bluntly, an associates degree is as valuable as two years of clerical experience.

 

[Cheese Wagstaff]

LMAO

This post is hilarious... I know you know the answer to this.

They both seem plausible to me?

Option 1: he is so lazy he has given up on looking for a job and is content to just go to minor league baseball games to get bobble heads and purchases the tickets with an inexplicable source of income (probably his parents though).

Option 2: he is so delusional he still thinks it’s worth his time to send out resumes and he is so unskilled that he could have been doing this for thirteen years without any luck.

 

[rent free]

you need to not be a leafs hater because there are a lot of leafs fans out there and they won't hire you if you trash the team

 

[John Price]

They both seem plausible to me?

Option 1: he is so lazy he has given up on looking for a job and is content to just go to minor league baseball games to get bobble heads and purchases the tickets with an inexplicable source of income (probably his parents though).

Option 2: he is so delusional he still thinks it’s worth his time to send out resumes and he is so unskilled that he could have been doing this for thirteen years without any luck.

 

[Cheese Wagstaff]

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

I am curious where he got his degree from and whether or not degree is recognized by all companies. Marketing degree usually take four years not two. So it sounds like he went to a community collage. Since he is asking us, if he is serious, I would question why his degree did not cover job hunting or making the degree work for. Also is it a degree( where it is BA) or is it a diploma? There is a difference. I know the business degree I earned 2 years the built in marketing portion had me focus on a major and minor for marketing ( major was social media and minor was target marketing via yes no answers)

His wording of the question leaves me with more questions then answers with how to help him because marketing is a wide subject most people who take it have some idea how they want use their degree

Yeah, I went to just a community college, I guess (just a regular college, not university). I took a standard two-year Business - Marketing program, and then I entered into a post-graduate program that gave me an advanced diploma (rather than the typical two year college diploma). I could also take 1.5 more years of college and end up with a degree, but at this time in my life, I'm done with it.

you need to not be a leafs hater because there are a lot of leafs fans out there and they won't hire you if you trash the team

I love the Leafs!

 

[rent free]

Yeah, I went to just a community college, I guess (just a regular college, not university). I took a standard two-year Business - Marketing program, and then I entered into a post-graduate program that gave me an advanced diploma (rather than the typical two year college diploma). I could also take 1.5 more years of college and end up with a degree, but at this time in my life, I'm done with it.



I love the Leafs!

Good man. You won't have any difficulty finding a job.

 

[mackzein]

wow congrats! This always enjoying to get the first job in life.

 

[CRM 114]

No I'm not but are you? There are thousands and thousands of people struggling to find jobs and people are getting laid off more than ever in the last twenty years or so.

By the way, nice childish comment you made.

I don't know where you live, but in the US the unemployment rate is 4%. There are literally more open jobs then there are applicants. There is a war on talent, buddy. Someone mentioned it earlier, but my advice would be to not get to hung up on the 'basic requirements' of job postings. Employers really only expect you to meet 60% of those. Just apply for shit that sounds like something you want to do. What is the worst that can happen, they say no?

 

[John Price]

Requirements are exaggerated and depict an "ideal candidate"

For entry level positions apply to as many as you can

gl