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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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Interview Preparation and Feedback

​How Your Recruiter Can Support You with Interview Preparation and Feedback A job interview is your chance to make a memorable impression and demonstrate why you are the best fit for the role. Wo...

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Salary Negotiation and Benchmarking

​​How a Recruiter Can Support You with Salary Negotiation and Market Benchmarking Negotiating your salary can be one of the most challenging aspects of job searching, yet it’s essential to ensure y...

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Careergands

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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CV Preparation

​​How to Build a Standout CV for Marketing Roles? If you’re aiming to secure a marketing role, your CV is essential in showcasing your potential to employers. Hiring managers are looking for CVs th...

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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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 Covid Pulse Survey October

Alternatives Marketing at Work Covid Pulse Survey The second Alternatives Covid Pulse Survey was carried out between September 17th-28th 2020. It was completed by 295 people in the marketing commun...

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Marketer of the Year™ on pause until 2021

Alternatives have been proud sponsors since 2006 of the prestigious Marketer of the Year™ award, that recognises the very best of marketing talent in Ireland. The sponsorship has always been celebr...

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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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