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Marketing Careers and Education Resources
Careers in Marketing Links
Marketing Education Links
Careers in Marketing Resources
- AMA – Job Boards
Job listings for both academics and professionals from American Marketing Association.
- CareerBuilder – Sales and Marketing Jobs
Major online job posting service.
- Careers in Marketing
List of general positions in marketing with brief descriptions of the positions and experience necessary for each position. From Northern Illinois University.
- Council of Public Relations Career Center
The Council of Public Relations Firms offers several job information and articles that discuss careers in this growing field.
- eLance
Top freelance site that allows project bids or set price offerings. Good search feature makes it easy to see what works has been requested and what others have paid for services.
- Guru
Mostly targeted to freelance and contract jogs, this site offers large selection of marketing-related jobs.
- Idealist – Nonprofit Careers
This non-profit portal provides information on careers in not-for-profit fields.
- Indeed
Approach differs from other services by employing robot software to search employer websites to locate job openings.
- Insights Association
Career information from the Marketing Research Association.
- Job.com
Major online job site.
- JobStar Salary Surveys
Links to several sites that offer salary information in marketing, advertising and sales.
- JobTarget JobFinder
Meta-site whose search engine appears to pull from many other search sites.
- LiveCareer
All-around career site for both professionals and students. Lots of advice for preparing for a job search as well as large links directory.
- Market Research Careers
Information from U.K. research association MRS that discusses career issues for market researchers.
- MarketingJobs.com
Site contains several categories of marketing job postings from throughout North America. Also offers resume services and other resources.
- Mediabistro
Focus is mostly (but not only) on freelancers who provide writing, editing and public relations services.
- Monster.com
Major online job service that includes postings found by scanning company websites looking for job postings.
- MRWeb Jobs
Search service that offers worldwide job listings with a focus on marketing research positions.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook
U.S. Labor Department site provides informative descriptions on career information for hundreds of occupations.
- Product Development and Management Association Career Center
Offers both marketing and technical job listings related to product development and product management, though access is limited to members.
- PRSA Job Center
Offers searchable list of jobs in public relations as well as salary information and other useful content.
- Quirk's Job Postings
Focuses on marketing research jobs.
- Resume and CVs
Purdue University site that offers basic information for creating resumes and cover letters.
- Resume and CVs
Another site offering ideas for writing resumes.
- Retailing Career Center
Information from the National Retail Federation on many different career paths in the retail industry. Also includes job search engine.
- Salary Calculator
Compares salaries by job title for selected cities.
- Salary.com
This site offers many job search services but its salary comparison feature is by far the most useful. Enter job type and geographic location and see range of salaries.
- Vault.com
General service with good career and job hunting resources though they may charge a fee to access certain materials.
Marketing Education Resources
- AMA Academic Resource and Community
Listing resources from the American Marketing Association that includes teaching, research and conference information. AMA is also publisher of Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research and other journals.
- AsiaCase.com
This site, which is associated with Nanyang Technological University, is best described as a case listing service that focuses on finding information specific to Asian interests. The site does not sell cases but provides listing of cases gathered from major case publishers.
- Darden Case Collection
Offers cases by the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, however, new additions are few and search and navigation are not real user friendly.
- Electronic Statistics Textbook
Nicely done and very extensive online stat textbook from StatSoft. Covers most major statistical areas and include good graphics. Best of all its free!
- Elmar
Leading marketing academic posting area. Focus is mostly on research, academic jobs, call for papers and conferences.
- Foundation Center
The premier source for U.S. corporate and foundation grants.
- Harvard Business School Cases
Leader in case studies, offers searchable database with thousands of cases as well as other teaching materials.
- HyperStat
Another good and free online statistics textbook.
- Ideas Worth Teaching – Aspen Institute
Provides weekly email teaching ideas that mostly focus on environmental, ethical, social marketing issues.
- Ivey Business School Cases
Contains extensive case collection and includes a nice advanced search feature for narrowing selections.
- MarketingTeacher
Site that focuses primarily on marketing education with a growing list of short tutorials on basic marketing issues.
- MBA Depot
Offers a number of resources including a searchable market research section containing many useful articles and links.
- MERLOT
Acronym stands for Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. Site has many resources for marketing educators including cases, lecture materials, class assignments, simulations and more.
- National Collegiate Sales Competition
Sponsored by the Center for Professional Selling.
- PapersINVITED
Fee-based site (though free trial available) that culls worldwide calls-for-papers and conference information in numerous academic fields.
- Pi Sigma Epsilon
Professional fraternity whose primary focus is on preparing students for careers in sales.
- Principles of Marketing from KnowThis.com
While our Principles of Marketing is not strictly a textbook, it is written at the same quality level.
- Research Methods Knowledge Base
While this site is a slightly scaled-down version of a printed textbook the material is still quite strong and should serve as a very good primer on how to conduct business and social research.
- The Times 100 Cases Studies
It takes a little time to figure out what is available on this site but once teachers do they will discover an outstanding resource. This UK site provides access to 100 excellent business cases including marketing. Cases can be downloaded or simply read on screen. Also offers good search, excellent teaching assistance, quizzes and a business theory area that explains basic business concepts and ties these to the cases studies. Best part is that it is free! Great Stuff!
- U.S. Government – Department of Education
Information covers financial aid and student loans, education guides and other publications.
- Warehouse & Distribution Science
Authored by John J. Bartholdi, III and Steven T. Hackman from Georgia Institute of Technology. this books provides good insight into what is involved in moving and storing product. Link provides information for accessing book and also instructor materials