Jobhunt help! (Marketing)

My girlfriend has been trying to get into the Marketing (and Sales) sector for a while but with no luck. Is there anybody who may be able to help, or know of anybody who they could put her in contact with? Just getting some experience or an internship would be incredible. She's been applying to jobs daily since June, with no luck, and is beginning to give up hope. She has an irrelevant degree from a great Uni and is currently doing a course in Marketing with the CIM.

Thanks!

When you say no luck has she had any interviews or not even got through the paper sift?

[Littlepeahead]

We're looking for a Debentures Administrator at my work place. You don't have to love cricket to do the job. It's an entry level position within our Club Facilities department but there are often opportunities to move onwards and upwards from this role into the Marketing or Meetings and Events departments.

http://www.lords.org/our-organisatio...administrator/

what kind of sale or Marketing is he looking for? also you have PM

She needs to Think outside the box, especially when going for a marketing position!

C

[DJ123]

Originally Posted by allantheboss

My girlfriend has been trying to get into the Marketing (and Sales) sector for a while but with no luck. Is there anybody who may be able to help, or know of anybody who they could put her in contact with? Just getting some experience or an internship would be incredible. She's been applying to jobs daily since June, with no luck, and is beginning to give up hope. She has an irrelevant degree from a great Uni and is currently doing a course in Marketing with the CIM.

Thanks!

Who has she been applying to? Big companies, small, corporate, charity, TV, radio stations, local newspapers, councils etc etc

If she hasn't been successful in 5 months then IMO she must not be doing something right. The CV is the 1st opportunity an employer gets to 'look' at you. If nothing stands out or doesn't read as interesting then why is she different from anyone else? Especially in marketing where you need to be innovative, think outside the box and be able to grab someone's attention. The CV is about her, the thing of which she knows everything about in the world. Use it to be quirky, different and make her CV stand out from the crowd.

[Littlepeahead]

Just be aware though if you actually use the phrase think outside the box on your cv it will probably get binned!

Originally Posted by Spank86

When you say no luck has she had any interviews or not even got through the paper sift?

She has had a few. She got hustled into a pyramid scheme but realised and quit before her first "actual" day of work. Otherwise she's had a few interviews, but almost nothing compared to the number of applications she's made. We reckon it's because her degree is in something irrelevant, so beyond being in the process of completing the part-time marketing course and a brief stint of relatively-marketing-related work, she doesn't have a particularly marketing-orientated background. So the C.V. may be the issue! Although most applications nowadays are online forms, often not even asking for C.V.s!

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

We're looking for a Debentures Administrator at my work place. You don't have to love cricket to do the job. It's an entry level position within our Club Facilities department but there are often opportunities to move onwards and upwards from this role into the Marketing or Meetings and Events departments.

http://www.lords.org/our-organisatio...administrator/

She's expressed interest already! We both say a resounding "Thanks, littlepeahead!"

Originally Posted by Devil Biccy

what kind of sale or Marketing is he looking for? also you have PM

ANYTHING! She's been unsuccessful for too long now to be picky.

Originally Posted by Berlin

She needs to Think outside the box, especially when going for a marketing position!

C

Great links, thanks! I've forwarded them to her to check out.

Originally Posted by daddyjob

Who has she been applying to? Big companies, small, corporate, charity, TV, radio stations, local newspapers, councils etc etc

If she hasn't been successful in 5 months then IMO she must not be doing something right. The CV is the 1st opportunity an employer gets to 'look' at you. If nothing stands out or doesn't read as interesting then why is she different from anyone else? Especially in marketing where you need to be innovative, think outside the box and be able to grab someone's attention. The CV is about her, the thing of which she knows everything about in the world. Use it to be quirky, different and make her CV stand out from the crowd.

Pretty much everything. We'll talk about her C.V. That's a good point. With the lack of feedback from employers whom reject, it's hard to tell if it's the C.V. or previous experience which need amending.

[DJ123]

Previous experience is what it is. With something like marketing (my guess) is that a lot of it is how you are perceived and how you put yourself across. Being innovative & approaching something in a different way is probably something they are looking for. If you could somehow put this into the CV to make it different & better, it may work in her favour.

Lie like a rug,


Well don't but definitely colour anything you can to seem like its marketingy.