Re: ---Marketing Major:
What people won't tell you here, that getting a respectable entry level job in the marketing field is the hardest thing anyone can ever come across. Unless you have a hookup and know someone, all you have available is telemarketing and door to door sales if not worse.
That is because most normal marketing jobs (as rare as they are) require this:
You must have 7-10 years of experience
Also, what is the biggest lunacy of it all is the fact, that most big companies fill their marketing positions from within their own ranks. They let people fill in the positions from within, from different departments who have no degree in such a field. Its mainly politics in bigger companies and sadly common site, where an MIS major, or Com Sci majored person from within a company will be given priority for a marketing dept position as opposed to an outside candidate with a marketing degree.
ALSO BEWARE: If you are looking for a creative type major, then marketing is not for you. Its basically a reserach based field or sales! Advertising is a seperate major! So is graphic design. Don't be mistaken.
just a word of caution: just because its the easiest major out there, doesn't mean you should go for it...
Thank You for your insight. I have met up with the advertising advisor too ..I liked the way they are pretty flexble with their curricullum about majoring and minoring in anything that one thinks interests them..which is not true in the business department..One thing is that after talking and doing some research is that their is a wide discrepency in the wages ..between an advertising major versus a marketing major..maybe doing the same job.I dont know who to believe as the business major advisor was saying that the advertising ones require a lot more work and earn less..etc. I have set up an appointment with the business career counselor now and see what they say and also with a management proffessor.Lets see what they say:).
Its a logical observation, and its standard practice. But the rest of my statement that you didn't quote simply implied that people who know nothing about the field are given jobs in such a department...thereby robbing new commers who have graduated with a marketing degree.
I am a marketing professional and am now established, but the amount of frustration I felt was incredible. These are observations based on two full years of irrelevant applications in big firms.
That sure is an interesting fact to know of..