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Mentoringandcoaching

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 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 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 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 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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Alternatives & MII Salary & Market Sentiment Survey 2021 Key Findings

The new 2021 Alternatives & MII Salary, Market Insights & Sentiment Survey Covid business impacts revealed;  Positive hiring outlook; Surge in preference for long term remote working; Marketing ...

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Alternatives Pulse Survey

The Professional and The Personal:New Alternatives Pulse Survey reveals how marketers are managing the joint impacts of Covid-19 and Working from HomeThe Alternatives Pulse Survey, carried out amon...

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Experiences

Career planning in a crisis

Career planning in a crisis On the right path? A unique time for reflection Covid 19 has been a unique and challenging experience on many levels and whether or not you have been made redundant, or ...

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“Getting Ahead Of The Curve”

Alternatives MD, Bernie Keogh, to speak at The Marketing Society Future Council - “Getting Ahead Of The Curve” Taking place from the comfort of everyone’s home on April 23rd 2020 (Thursday) at 6pm,...

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Alternatives Business & Market Update

Alternatives Business and Market update As we end 2019 and begin a new year, Bernie Keogh, Managing Director, takes a look at the talent and skill sets in demand from an Alternatives perspectiv...

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B2B marketing- opportunities for impact and career growth

B2B marketing- a route to career successThis autumn the majority of senior roles I’ve worked on have been in the B2B space. I’ve managed a B2B Commercial Marketing Director process and a senior sho...

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