Marketing Manager - Career Queries

Hi Chandrashekhar,Becoming a vice president of a company is not an easy task. But as you say that you have 16 years of experience and you are doing an executive MBA your caches increase for the same. See different companies have different criteria and qualities that they look in the vice presidents of their company you just need to meet their requirements. But if you are working towards it you will definitely achieve the target that you have set for yourself.Best of luck!

1 answer Adhunika Naithani in Marketing Manager category

Hey Rishi, It is worth appreciating that you have taken all the responsibilities of your family at a very young age. You should be proud of yourself for the same also. It is completely fine to do that as well. You have studied from a very good school and I must say that will help you a lot as well.If there are financial problems then you can go for a distance learning education. You can opt for doing a B.Com. it will not be that difficult for you as well as the fees for it will also be very less. There are short term diploma courses that you can also do; the fee for it is also not much. IGNOU

Hello Sumit,One can definitely not ignore the fact that the FMCG sector or the Fast Moving Consumer Goods sector is a fast growing sector and the industry is growing day by day. But in your case when you have done your graduation in pharmacy and are presently working in a pharmaceutical company with that it would be better to work in the same field. Even if you want to change your job I would suggest that you can look for a job in the same field itself.If you are not interested in continuing your job in a pharmaceutical company only then I would say that you can try in an FMCG company.The deci

1 answer Adhunika Naithani in Marketing Manager category

Hi Amrita ,Interest assessment test can be administered at all level and the basic objective is to identify the interests, so that you don't have to struggle in your career building endeavours. Try the test and then build your career around that. It will help you assess your strengths and weaknesses.Regards,Sumit

1 answer Sumit Basu in Marketing Manager category

Great question. I have been seeking for the answers when I stumbled upon this thread. Thanks a million!

Doing a PhD itself explains you are taking up a curve from reading theoretical subject to going practical in research. I am a PhD in Management and I hope my perspectives will help you with your inquiry. There are many candidates approaching me to understand what it is like doing a PhD and how to research, select topics for their PhD, how to write research proposal, how to collect data and so on. Here I will brief you on these aspects of doing the PhD. You have mentioned your desire to studying PhD in [Marketing management][1]. So in this case I believe you should be eligible to apply for

Hello Thank you for choosing Mera career guide and writing to us. I am sorry to hear that you got upset with one of our counsellor's comments. Please do not mistake over it. I can certainly offer you advice on your query. I can very well understand that you are an MBA aspirant and you have already well thought what you need to do at your Bachelors degree level. Nice to see that you have understood what deems to be necessary on the long run. So lets start like this. What do you want to become in life? What do you want to study in life? I think you are keen in doing an MBA by cracking

1 answer Dr Aparna in Marketing Manager category

Hello Thank you for choosing Mera career guide and writing to us. Traditionally marketing manager role was only involved in marketing their company's products across the market and recently marketing management has evolved so much with a contemporary shape. People generally assume a marketing manager will sell goods in his allocated market but it is actually not. As said as a person with marketing management degree, you can do the following interesting things. Market analyst - Market analyst studies the dynamics of a market and each segment involved in the targeted market. For e

1 answer Dr Aparna in Marketing Manager category

Hello Thank you for choosing [Meracareerguide][1] and writing to us. Traditionally [marketing manager role][2] was only involved with marketing and distribution of company's products. But [marketing management][3] career has developed a contemporary shape. Market Analyst- Market analyst studies the dynamics of a particular market sector or a particular segment. For example, if your company is selling a product say its a baby soap, as a market analyst you will analyse who are the other companies manufacturing the baby soap. As a market analyst you will further analyse what is the dema

1 answer Dr Aparna in Marketing Manager category

Hello thereThank you very much for contacting counsellors at [meracareerguide][1] and i am glad you have considered marketing subject to study. I can certainly offer you some advice on this today. But before i proceed please let me introduce myself. I am Gomathi and i am the managing director of GV Business consulting group. I have been into this counselling industry since 23 years now and i counsel people on both career and education. Now lets move into the topic.  India has many BSchools offering MBA and [PhD in Management][2] with Marking management as one of their specializations.

1 answer Gomathi Venkat in Marketing Manager category

Hello there Thank you very much for contacting counsellors at [Meracareerguide][1] and i appreciate your interest into marketing. I am happy to solve your query today. Before we go into the topic please allow me to introduce myself. I myself Gomathi is the Managing director of GV Consulting group based in Bangalore. I am into this counselling industry so far since 23 years and i counsel everyone in need of [education choice and career advice][2]. So now lets get into the topic. [Marketing management][3] has changed into a great shape from past decade to now. Earlier sales was also cons

1 answer Gomathi Venkat in Marketing Manager category

Hello, To get the post of professor, firstly you have to clear the masters degree. Once you clear it with minimum aggregate marks then you should apply for UGC NET Exam which is organised by one of the well known agency i.e. the National Testing Agecny. The subject for which you can apply is Management.  After qualifying the NET Exam you will be eligible to apply in various colleges and institutes for the post of Assistant Professor. After getting recruited for Assistant Professor post, you will be promoted to Associate Professor and then Professor. Hope it helps!

Hello , Looking at your query, I can feel your frustration and your desperate need for a practical solution. You are not alone in this quagmire,,,, there are many who are going through the same phase , for whom the career dreams were something else and practical reality is some thing quite different. There are only a few who planned their career properly, career dreams and reality coincided perfectly and are enjoying their great careers. But if it does not happens its better not to brood over the situation and try to craft a practical choice where it possible to get what you want..., good

1 answer Halima Sadiya in Marketing Manager category

Dear aspirant It is appreciating to see your interest in doing an MBA. May I ask you a few questions initially? You should aim to answer these to yourself. Why do you want to do an MBA? Is it because you are purely interested in studying an MBA or is it because your friends are doing it or your family is advising you to do? Please do a course only when you are really interested in it. Moreover you have mentioned that you have no work experience, You can definitely do an MBA without work experience as there are colleges who still offer admissions for freshers with no work experience but af

Hello Thank you for choosing [Meracareerguide][1] and writing to us. I completely understand your frustration but I also appreciate [your responsibility][2] towards your future as it is evident with you approaching counsellors at this platform. Do not worry as it does happen with lots of people. May I ask you in which company are you currently working and what are your current qualifications? I assume being a Marketing Associate, you must be at an entry level position at the company right? May be your company has a culture to not give challenging assignments for employees at the basic lev

Dear aspirants , I would like to congratulate you that you came on right platform for your query. As you want to know colleges in Uttar Pradesh for doing MBA, this is very good question because college play very important role in getting job after MBA. Before taking admission in MBA, you must asses yourself, weather your fit for MBA or not. Now question is , How will you asses yourself. Yes you asses yourself on the base of personality type, aptitude. If you have right personality type and aptitude, definitely you will achieve great success in this field. As you know that management broadly co

1 answer Ashwani  Mohan in Marketing Manager category

Hello , Good that you approached CareerGuide.com even after having fifteen years of experience, all of us do need career guidance and advice at all stages of our career. Well to start with your experience, it's obvious that you are getting slow progressions as you are in the profession with diploma as your qualification. your graduation and masters subject does not aids to your chosen field of work..., right?How about thinking of a switch and taking a little risk..,At first, I would suggest you to combine your Masters and Diploma Experience and apply for marketing and sales departments of

1 answer Halima Sadiya in Marketing Manager category

Hello Student...This is a very good questions which comes into everyone's mind who is related in any way to marketing filed. To start with I would like to introduce myself, I did my MBA from IIM shillong and we have some papers of marketing too. I am currently working in finance field but I can answer your query with my more than five years of working experience in private companies. Coming to your query [about marketing managers and their work][1] are as mentioned below:First is [Marketing managers][2] are having full freedom to do what ever they want as they will be travelling and all, b

1 answer Alok Agrawal in Marketing Manager category

Hello There!Thanks for the complete background and I am happy to see you approach [CareerGuide][1] for seeking guidance to your very natural query. I am sure that the experts here will be able to guide you. Just a little about myself... I am an Educationist and an Economist. I have been into career counselling for more than seven years now for students generally from commerce / management / law / engineering streams. I am also a writer and my articles and research papers on various topics including career management have been published in reputed newspapers and magazines across India.From

1 answer Dr. Anand Wadadekar, PhD in Marketing Manager category

Hello! As for marketing in my company, I decided to delegate this task to a resource like   offered our website to create personalized offers based on emails. It's really cool, because it now gives us the opportunity to attract more and more users to our product and increase the number of sales!