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...
Read moreAlternatives 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...
Read moreAlternatives 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...
Read moreAlternatives 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 ...
Read moreAlternatives 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...
Read moreAlternatives 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 ...
Read moreImpact 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...
Read moreCareer 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 ...
Read moreAlternatives 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...
Read moreMarketer 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 ...
Read moreLatest 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...
Read moreAre 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...
Read more‘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...
Read moreTim 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...
Read moreDervila 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...
Read more"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...
Read moreTalent 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...
Read morePaul 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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