Get into marketing

February 08, 2017

6:00 PM - Liverpool

Marketing is so much more than sales and advertising.

Find out about the wide range of jobs that marketers do, match your skills and aptitudes to the right role for you and discover how to get a start in marketing and turn it into a successful career.

This event is for anyone considering a career in marketing - university students, those embarking on their career pathway, or looking to change into this exciting field of work. Discover the different routes to achieving CIM qualifications whilst at University or after graduation and learn from CIM qualified graduates what having a professional qualification did for their careers, and hear from a specialist marketing recruiter as to what they are looking for, and the roles they look to fill.

Speakers: Diane Cotton, CIM Tutor, Peter McPartland, MCIM and Chartered Marketer and Diane Earles, Network Manager at CIM.

The programme for the session is as follows:-

18:00 Registration, refreshments and networking

18:30 Welcome by Joe McGrath, Marketing programme leader at Liverpool John Moores University

18:35 CIM qualifications: Diane Cotton, CIM tutor at Warrington Collegiate and Oxford College of Marketing

18:50 Careers in marketing: Colin Telford, Marketing recruiter at The Candidate

19:05 Life of a marketer: Lessons learnt by Peter McPartland, Tendering Manager at Weightmans, MCIM Chartered Marketer and alumni of Liverpool John Moores University

19:20 How CIM can help: Diane Earles, MCIM Chartered Marketer and Network Manager at CIM

19:35 My marketing career: Panel Q&A and discussions

This event is kindly sponsored by The Candidate.

CPD category: General business skills
Duration: 1.5 hours

Registration and networking is from 18:00, the session starts at 18:30 and finishes at 20:00. If you are non-EU resident please call the Network Support team to make your booking.