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Alternatives - joining the Brightwater Group

​After 22 years, Alternatives is joining forces with the Brightwater Group.  Alternatives will continue to operate as a standalone brand, with its own bespoke, specialist marketing and digital te...

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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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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 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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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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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 - 20 years old

Alternatives is twenty!I still can’t quite believe it! A simple idea that myself and Aldagh McDonogh had 20 years ago, to create an alternative way for clients to access great marketing talent and ...

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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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The gig economy – a talent enabler

By Joan Fahey, Head of Alternatives’ Flexible Panel, Alternatives There’s much debate around the future of working but one trend that is definitely here to stay is flexible working. Flexible wor...

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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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