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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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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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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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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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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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Alternatives Quarterly Market Update

The market for talent has remained dynamic, in spite of uncertainty over Brexit and a 31st October deadline. FMCG & Drinks sectors are displaying a great deal more caution, and are relatively quiet...

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The 10 Must Be's

By Sandra Lawler, Founder Director, AlternativesHow do you remain a relevant and valued strategic partner that helps your organisation put the customer at the centre of its business, whilst ensurin...

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The new 2018 Alternatives MII Salary, Market Insights & Sentiment Survey

WOMEN EARNING LESS AND MISSING OUT ON BENEFITS; GIG ECONOMY THRIVING, ENGAGEMENT LEVELS DIVING AND BREXIT CASTS A SHADOW  The 2018 Alternatives & Marketing Institute of Ireland Salary, Market Insig...

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Marketer of the year

  Every year, since 1993, there could only be one winner. But we’re now looking for Ireland’s top marketer over the last 25 years. To help celebrate the silver jubilee of Marketer of the Y...

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Marketing People: Charley Stoney

Our managing director Charley Stoney spoke with John McGee in the latest edition of the Sunday Independent business. Check out the article below.        ...

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Digital is dead, long live Digital!

The digital world we live in today affects every function in today’s organisations and to stay competitive we simply can’t afford to think in digital silos anymore. For the last 10 years, we have b...

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Irish analytics pros in demand

Survey shows positive salary picture, but with potential skills issues ahead with people on the move.​A survey of Irish data analytics professionals for the Analytics Institute, carried out by Alte...

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2017 Salary & Employee Sentiment Survey for the Data Analytics community

  Alternatives are delighted to launch the 2017 Salary & Employee Sentiment Survey for the Data Analytics community in collaboration with the Analytics Institute of Ireland.   Not only can you b...

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Alternatives on the Irish Tech News podcast

Adrian Clarke, Talent Manager for Analytics at Alternatives, Charley Stoney, Group Managing Director at Alternatives and Lorcan Malone, the CEO of the Analytics Institute, talk to the Analytics Ins...

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