Courses in Statistics for a marketing career.
As a student one needs to make the right choices in academic courses, and this can be best planned with the career you have in mind combined with a certain level of aptitude towards the decided career. On this site we always talk about marketing and the industry’s love for newcomers, freshers, part-time jobs and more, however for a long-term career in marketing certain courses are sure to come handy.
You maybe thinking, “well I’ve the gift of the gab” or “I’m social media fiend” and that you do not require any particular academic skills for a marketing career. To a certain extent these qualities are more than enough, however, when you get to actually forecasting trends, analyzing results and more, all the conversational skills will end up flat. Analysing results is a pre-requisite for any marketer and companies like Oracle Advertising vouch by this in Europe. Continue reading
Sony waiting for Kareena’s call!
Sony India is still unclear on whether recently married actress Kareena Kapoor would continue to be the brand ambassador for ”Sony Vaio” and will be part of its next advertising campaign.
It is reported that Sony is all set to start its new ad campaign - marketing for Vaio range of laptops and how to link Kareena for the advertisment of this new range of laptops. Kareena has been the face for Sony’s Vaio series of laptop and speculations are on whether she would continue to be the face for Vaios upcoming projects.
Meanwhile, Sony India wants the Kareena factor to be their with their Vaio laptops which is getting huge sales with the Kareena brand power.
The star couple Kareena and Saif would be planning for their honeymoon, will that be in India – Kerala, or would that be in any foreign locations, but for Sony, the main concern would the nod from Kareena to continue as brand ambassador for Sony India.
Choose SEO As a Career/a Freelance Job!
If you have done with your graduation, choosing a career in SEO or opting it as a freelance career is an excellent choice. Anyone who has acquired a proficient knowledge about the internet and serch can be an SEO professional with some basic learning and understanding.
Nowadays, SEO is a good freelance job option for many students as well choosing it as a professional career for life. The demand for good SEO experts is high and is constantly on the rise. SEO is a profession that can be practiced while working for a company or as a solo practitioner. You will find many a number of companies on-line while searching for a SEO company. Web Listings Inc is one such company that has taken SEO as a business and a place where you will find many SEO experts. Continue reading
Find your aptitude with summer jobs!
For students taking up summer jobs, marketing jobs is the first step to know how the corporate world functions. No other industry puts you quickly through the ropes of the industry. From drawing out campaign plans to structuring the teams into field work and office work, the work is conducted as a well-oiled machine.
In fact part-time jobs in marketing can help clear the doubts and even help identify your aptitudes and so on. I chanced upon this site www.appcogroupjobs.com - they have a section on marketing jobs for part-time, full time and freelance jobs.
We all know that kid in class who can ‘sell an ice cream to an Eskimo’… ever wonder what he/she is doing learning molecular biology? If you are clueless about your forte, summer jobs are the way to go – an opportunity to find a new direction, and perhaps a career you love!
Have you tried direct marketing as a summer job?
A student scholar has numerous hurdles of the academic kind, we all know this – the thesis preparation, project work, reference, presenting papers and so on. However, nothing beats the need to hustle a few extra bucks any which way you can! Disclaimer: this post is in no way advocating any crime! (wink)Summer months offer an opportunity to bring that elusive extra cash – a time to pick up an odd job or two to supplement the student fiscal needs.
This is where numerous marketing companies tend to be your next best friend. Direct marketing especially is ideal for the glib smooth talkers among you and tons of direct mail or call opportunities are available among marketing companies like Appco Group. They work in teams and are quick in training you up and fit you right away into groups working away on campaigns.
There’s flexibility in timings and often you can do it all from home and just drop into offices once a week. Worth a try, we’d say!
Scholarships and charity fundraising!
College education being a major fillip to any career, most of us work towards garnering the best scholarships to get our tuition fees waived. We scour the papers and cut-out out new schemes by colleges or grants being offered by businesses who are out to help students in the hope to eke out fresh recruits for the future. For the student scholar the United States colleges have numerous scholarships designed to help a particular student demographic or other, based on a criteria important to the scholarship donor.
We will be getting into the unique scholarships available in our following posts; however having touched upon scholarships I would like to talk about charity as well as there are similarities. I chanced upon an informative article on charity donors and how they can discern a genuine fundraiser from the sea of charity fundraisers that are out there. ‘How do I know if a fundraiser is genuine‘ a Red Cross article takes the example of Appco Group to explain.
Quite like the sea of scholarships out there to ferry our higher education dreams and our struggle to identify the best and get more, right? How about sending us your top tips to identify the best of scholarships and we’ll be glad to feature your post and add you to the AZTU team.
Learning from people in the industry
One of the best places to learn from is people who are actually in the industry and work in it every day. Take medical training, you can learn all the basics in University, but it’s not until you actually start dealing with patients that you learn how to become a doctor.
There are loads of great summits and events where you can get practical advice from, companies like Appco group ,where you can get experienced speakers to pass on their knowledge and experience. You can also waste a lot of money on meetings and conferences if you don’t do your research correctly. So make sure when deciding on event that you check out the reviews just like you would with a hotel.
So a good education must be made up of both piratical and theory, so learn from the best whether its a book, webinar, talk or video. Search out practical information from authoritive figures in your industry, companies like Appco Group also help connect vendors with potential clients, so learning how to network is a critical step in moving on up in your chosen career.
The A to Z of Education…
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated”- Oscar Wilde
Education- something that deserves to be discussed at great lengths, something that pertains to our lives and touches each and every aspect of our day-to-day life, though we don’t often get to know it. There are many who underestimate the value of education; there are others who scorn it and there are many who are ignorant of it. But that education is a thing of paramount importance is beyond all dispute. Looking at successful people like Christos Niarchos will help see how they manage to hit their goals in life, just for the record not this Christos Niarchos!. We won’t wish to go on and on, especially in this introductory post of ours. We just dedicate this site to the ‘A to Z’ of education. We’d discuss here, in this space, everything that pertains to education, globally and would pay homage to people who have held aloft the glorius tradition of education, at all times. We ask questions, on an introspective mode and also set out to answer questions, as and when needed.
So, let’s get on with it. Keep watching this space….
Recent Comments