5 Challenges when looking for a job

Looking for a job as a recent grad is tough! Especially when you know what you want - to be a digital marketing professional. It's rare to find a spec which doesn't state a minimum of 2 years experience in this field and trainee programmes and graduate roles are an exception.

Can you identify yourself with some stuff this guy mentions in this video? I did.

How to make the right next step in your career after college

Throughout my time in university I always had this blurry vision of the perfect role in the back of my head. When it comes to the time when I actually wrote my final exams and all my lectures were finished up I started feeling the pressure of knowing what I actually wanted to do when I graduate. Unfortunately, I had no clue, apart from knowing I wanted to do something in the online space.

Tips and Interview Questions for Fellow Graduates - My Experience at the EOP Interview

"Interviews are a theatrical performance"... is a sentence I read in a recent article I found when researching interview tips before going to my interview for the EOP graduate programme. And I agree.

Especially in the case of us graduates: You prepare a dialogue by thinking of answers; you could nearly say it's a sales pitch. In some cases you even rehearse your answers with a friend (which is actually a very good idea to lower levels of nervousness, helped me anyways).

This can be seriously stressful, especially when you are doing this for the first time. So this is hopefully of some help to you.

My Top Five Graduate Programmes to consider - Your goal: Make THEM consider you!

--updated post on Graduate Programmes in Ireland (2015)--

Having shared the overview of my research about digital marketing courses in Dublin with you last week, I am now presenting you with some ideas
around marketing graduate programmes. Some of these also incorporate some sort of post grad qualification which makes these placements ideal opportunities to gain further specific theoretical knowledge and get the unique opportunity to gain practical experience with one of Ireland’s most recognised brands. Plus – all of these are paid roles which is why competition for these is incredibly fierce.

How to choose a Digital Marketing Course in Dublin - Find the one suitable for you!

While on the hunt for some Master courses in Digital Marketing in Dublin I discovered that there isn't many

out there yet. Digital Marketing is so new and recent that the institutions have not managed to catch up with the growing demand in training and education in this area but I predict within the next few years the courses will be mushrooming and my summary below will have to be updated. (Which I did: See updated post from 2015 here)

What is your plan when you finish college?

I think several students in a similar position to me will agree that this is the most annoying question somebody could possibly ask you. You just managed to get over the last big set of exams, you are knee-deep stuck with work to finish your thesis research and then this question..