Student - In place of experience providing mentor?
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Its been a while since I've been a student (!) and now my daughter would like to get into marketing but she's 18 and only has experience in 'pre 18 year old' type jobs (shop assistant etc) and so has no marketing experience to help her get even the first rung of the employment ladder. I was wondering if she could pitch herself as being young/new/enthusiastic but with me as a mentor to train her/advise her (I work part time in marketing with 20 years exp). Worth a try? Not worth a try? I came up with the idea as a freind works for one of these apprenticeship companies and they do something similar (but more in depth).
Get her to work for you in marketing for a couple of months then she will have something on her CV. I employed my sister for a summer as an HR Assistant and off the back of that she got a role in the same discipline in the City. That was 10 years ago and she's still with the same company 
Many people have proved it's not what you know, but who you know.
Work your connections if your daughter agrees. She might want to carve her own path though. Many 'marketing' jobs are really admin jobs that have a bit of colouring in mixed up with the general running of an area of the business, so it'd be worth working out where she wants to start and whether it's worth being the skivvy. She might not care as much as you do
Work your connections if your daughter agrees. She might want to carve her own path though. Many 'marketing' jobs are really admin jobs that have a bit of colouring in mixed up with the general running of an area of the business, so it'd be worth working out where she wants to start and whether it's worth being the skivvy. She might not care as much as you do
andy-xr said:
Many people have proved it's not what you know, but who you know.
Work your connections if your daughter agrees. She might want to carve her own path though. Many 'marketing' jobs are really admin jobs that have a bit of colouring in mixed up with the general running of an area of the business, so it'd be worth working out where she wants to start and whether it's worth being the skivvy. She might not care as much as you do
So true, the things I have seen other marketing people do belies belief and yet they stay in the same roles year after year...Work your connections if your daughter agrees. She might want to carve her own path though. Many 'marketing' jobs are really admin jobs that have a bit of colouring in mixed up with the general running of an area of the business, so it'd be worth working out where she wants to start and whether it's worth being the skivvy. She might not care as much as you do
And who doesn't love a bit of colouring anyway??
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