Advice on how to find a new job in marketing

As the head of recruiting at a web agency and as a former marketing agency hiring manager, I love helping people find the right job! My career advice here focuses on finding marketing jobs in Raleigh and the NC Research Triangle, but the lessons are universal.

ARTICLES: Free Marketing Job-Search Advice

From my experience as a job-seeker and hiring manager, I firmly believe that if you follow these tips, you’ll find a job in marketing faster than the average candidate:

  1. My favorite networking events and marketing groups in and near Raleigh, NC
  2. How to find a new job in marketing: 12 tips to get hired
  3. How to get more interviews: 14 tips from a marketing agency hiring manager
  4. Seth Godin marketing interview: 3 questions he’s never been asked before
  5. Are you invisible to recruiters? Take a 5-minute quiz to find your LinkedIn Recruitability Score
  6. One-hour resume makeover: 10 ways to get more interviews in 60 minutes
  7. Marketing job search lessons: my top 11 tips as a job-seeker
  8. What not to say when you apply for a job at an interactive marketing agency
  9. Help your marketing career by joining the Triangle AMA trade association board
  10. Nice rejection letters: A job-search unicorn?
  11. The career ladder has turned into a career trapeze, says marketing cartoonist Tom Fishburne
  12. We need it great; we don’t need it “by Tuesday,” says AdAge‘s top small-agency head David Baldwin
  13. Hire people who take their work personally, says marketer Cord Silverstein
  14. Why you need to keep up with Justin Bieber, says creative director Gregory Ng

Want more? Follow me on Twitter at @KarlSakas. You should also read Alison Green’s great Ask a Manager blog.

Why is this marketing job-search advice relevant to you?

I’ve been on both sides of the fence — as an optimizing job-seeker and as an optimizing hiring manager. In college, I was the guy who started visiting Career Services the September of my freshman year.

Ever since then, people have been asking me for career and job-searching advice. I subscribed to Workforce Management magazine for five years before I actually managed anyone.

In the past few years, I’ve hired or helped hire for at least 10 jobs, and I’ve read at least 500 resumes and cover letters — enough to have some opinions about what works… and what doesn’t work.

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