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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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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 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 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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Impact on marketing from Covid-19 crisis

Impact and Outlook for the Marketing Community This article first featured in the March 2021 edition of marketing.ie We are one year into living with Covid and operating in truly unprecedented time...

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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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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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2019 Marketer of the Year-Emma Kiernan Dublin Zoo

Emma Kiernan, The Creator of “Wild Lights” and driver of record-breaking numbers at Dublin Zoo, wins Marketer Of The Year™ 2019       ​     Emma Kiernan from Dublin Zoo has just been nominated Mark...

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Marketer of the Year finalists announced

As award sponsors since 2006, we at Alternatives are delighted to announce this year's Marketer of the Year #Moty2019 finalists.It was narrowed down from a strong field to four candidates, who are ...

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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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Latest findings from 2019 Alternatives & MII Salary, Market Insights and Sentiment Survey

The  2019 Alternatives & MII Salary, Market Insights & Sentiment Survey Brexit Impact Hits & Senior Gender Pay Gap Widens to €17,500 Double digit percentage salary increases Flexible working even m...

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Are you Ireland's Marketer of the Year 2019?

Are you a leading light of marketing? Have you achieved great business and brand success? If so, we'd love to hear from you! This year our criteria are a little different to previous year...

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‘Ensure Everyone Is Looking At Things Differently’: How Flexible Recruitment Shapes A Diverse Team At Permanent TSB

Without even realising it, hiring managers can often fall prey to unconscious bias. We gravitate towards the people we can relate to, we admire the skill sets we desire and we connect with those wh...

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Tim Ryan, Glanbia: Flexible Contracts Helped Me Shape A 20-Year Career in Marketing

“I had a permanent opportunity and an interim opportunity and I took the interim opportunity.” It’s a rare and magical thing when a brand becomes synonymous with a country – but think of Ireland...

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Dervila McGarry: ‘The Onus Today Is On Businesses To Be Flexible – Especially For Millennials’

There is no blueprint for a successful marketing campaign. What works for one campaign might not gain any traction for another. The challenge for marketers is to study, analyse and understand wh...

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"Living the dream"

"I Do Feel Like I’m Living The Dream’: How Paula Thomas Built An Incredible Career On Flexible Contracts" Flexible working is about just that - flexibility. And where there’s flexibility there’s...

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Talent for topline growth

There are 8 key levers of sustainable and profitable topline growth. Multi-disciplinary, ever evolving marketing functions are at the heart of this, as are other customer and market focused functio...

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Paul Dervan leading Alternatives Marketing Effectiveness

​​Paul Dervan is joining Alternatives as Head of Marketing Effectiveness.​​Paul will be leading Alternatives effectiveness consultancy & training arm, working with marketing leaders and their teams...

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