Two month contract for marketing grad

If you are a business or marketing student grad - you might like this.

Return 2 Sender are looking for somebody to work with them for two months. It is hands on. So expect to get stuck in, doing bits of everything. Good chance to get some agency experience. Nice folks there too. With good clients. Visit here to check it out. And ask for Mags when you call.

Marketing Manager job up for grabs

Plan Ireland are looking to fill a new marketing manager role. Plan is a children's development organisation that operates in 48 countries. Read the spec. The job looks good. Challenging and exciting.

July 9th is closing date. Click to read the job spec.

Email marketing position with Concern

If you are in the market for a new job in digital - drop over to Concern. They are looking to fill an email marketing position. Sounds very worthwhile.

More information here.

Job - media account director

Dublin based digital agency - Cybercom - are looking to fill a new role. To manage a team of four in their media department. More info and a job spec at their site.

Any grads out there trying to get their first job in marketing?

Any grads out there trying to get their first job in marketing? I don't have any jobs going. But if you are ambitious, ready to work extremely hard to get a job and willing to take a long-term view of a marketing career - I'm offering to help you find one. For free of course.

If you're interested, drop me an email.

(If on the off chance I get swamped with emails, I'll work a first-come-first-served system or work out something fair.)

Marketing job available

Dublin-based digital agency, Cybercom, are looking for an account manager. The details are on their site. Rob and the guys in Cybercom are a good bunch to work with. No doubt the role will be filled quickly.

Digital Media Strategist Job

Tom in Prosperity Recruitment is currently looking for a digital media strategist for a large ad agency. (I don't know which agency.) The role description sounds interesting for planner types who are very comfortable with digital. It is Dublin-based.

More at their site here.

Need an office manager?

Know anybody that needs an office manager / administrator? If so, please drop me a mail. I know somebody that is looking for work either part-time or full time. She has some marketing experience. She is pretty good too.

Great if anybody can help.

Marketing contractor available for project work

I offered last week to post any marketing jobs going or any marketers looking for work.

Shira asked me to mention her. She works in marketing communications and tends to work freelance or project based. Shira's area of interest and expertise is brochures, website content, white papers, newsletters and writing copy.

I haven't worked with Shira so don't know her personally but you can look at her latest website content here. And you can contact her at: s_h_i_r_a@yahoo.com

Marketing Role. B2B. South Dublin. 50k.

Beth asked me to mention a marketing role she is recruiting for.

If you've 5+ years in marketing communications, with some B2B experience - this might be worth a look. Technology company. 80 employees. South Dublin. N11. You'd be reporting into the Sales and Marketing Director. I'm told the package is up to €50k. Watch the 'up to', you might need to fight for it.

You'd need a good understanding of direct marketing, PR, online and would be expected to proof read copy, deal with printers, designers etc.

All looks pretty manageable. Loads of resources and people available online if you need to upskill yourself on online, digital, direct marketing, copy writing, PR, etc.

I don't know the company, but Beth seems nice. You can call her on 01 2557377

Looking for a marketing job? I'm happy to help if I can.

Not a day goes by when I don't get into a conversation about the economy meltdown.

On one hand, we can be guilty of talking ourselves into a panic. At the same time, it is very understandable that people are nervous. Folks are losing jobs. Good folks too. And it can happen to any one of us.

With this in mind, I just want to say that I'm very happy to post a mention for (1) anybody looking for a marketing job or (2) anybody that has a marketing job opportunity.

If you want me to post something, just drop me a mail.

Clearly I don't want CVs so try and sell yourself with a few interesting points that you are comfortable seeing here in a blog post. And if possible, add a link to where an employer can get more info. Be creative.

I'll just restrict it to marketing roles (including advertising, DM, digital etc) given the nature of my blog.

When I grow up, I want to work in Advertising

I went through 19 CVs this week.

Image courtesy of Fiona Rae

I went through 19 CVs one night this week.

In search of somebody that loves advertising, has some experience in it and is willing to work hard. Could I tell from the CVs? Nope. Not one had a blog or a link to a portfolio or previous campaigns either.

I couldn't help but wonder how individuals with marketing backgrounds, working in the field of communication, do not sell themselves better.

The CVs were mostly full of stuffy language and clichés. "Maximise this. Productivity that. Works well in groups. But also independently". This is from folks pursuing careers in persuasive communication.

How refreshing would it be to get a CV that starts with "I will work into the long dark lonely hours of the night to make sure my advertising campaign is something W+K, Crispin Porter, Alex W. White and David Ogilvy would all be proud of"?

This one sentence tells me a lot...You love advertising. There is a good chance you know the basics. You understand that advertising needs to sell. And you are ready to take on the necessary long hours. That would be enough to get an interview.

If you're good, don't hide.

Why don't recruitment brands make ads like this?

I wrote about recruitment websites the other day - on their missed opportunity to ignite conversations or take an interesting position about....well, about anything that might differentiate themselves.

A view on 'employee motivation' is one possible position.

So here's an ad any of them could have credibly done. Surely this is more fun, engaging and memorable than the stuff we see. I'm sure having a sports star aids recall but the ad would work fine regardless I think.

Why are recruitment brands are still commodities?

Little Gordon, via Adland.

I've often wondered why recruitment websites let themselves be seen as commodities.

Are they not all the same? Same jobs to be found. Same processes. And little done to differentiate one from the next. I even suggested a couple of months ago that they could learn from Pdiddy.

Shame, when you consider how interesting they could be. These recruitment brands could credibly talk about so many things that we are interested in - our jobs, careers, management, employee motivation, time pressures, work/life, education, the future. The list goes on. But they don't seem to have a view on any of this stuff.

Which is why the above video was refreshing. A bit of personality. A bit of fun. And relevant. You'll find more Little Gordon videos here. Pity they didn't incorporate this site directly into caterer.com instead of having two sites.

Also refreshing is the stuff RecruitIreland.com are trying. I read recently on mulley.net that they are now using facebook, bebo and twitter. I had a look. Didn't see much activity on bebo or facebook but looks like they are using twitter regularly. If nothing else, these initiatives allow us to get a feel for the people behind Recruitment Ireland and this is a good thing.

Pity they have no blog. Or at least I didn't see one.

Perhaps recruitment sites can learn from P.Diddy?

A friend of mine works for a popular online recruitment website. It is a good site, gets shed loads of traffic and I believe it does a decent job matching employers and applicants. But I reckon they are missing opportunities.

Online recruitment is a competitive enough industry with several big players in Ireland. But are they all the same? There are probably some differences around usability, features etc but do we choose one site over another? And if we do, why? And do we have any loyalty to our recruitment sites or are they all seen as commodities to help with our job search?

Of course, if we have no loyalty to a recruitment brand, this is their fault - not ours.

Recruitment was one of the first big (and profitable?) sectors that embraced the internet. It feels though that they haven't moved on much in the past 5-10 years? For example, should we still only be applying for jobs by uploading template-driven paper CVs?

Perhaps recruitment sites can learn from P.Diddy?