Here’s the short answer to how I got my first marketing job: the founder\/CEO of ReferralCandy, a software company had read my blog, liked what I’d written, and asked me out to coffee for a chat \u2013 where he offered me the job. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(I actually didn’t say yes right away \u2013 I was hoping to be a flight attendant, but then that fell through \u2013 so I took the offer after that. I ended up spending 5.5 years at RC, and it was a wonderful time for me. I learned loads.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I actually got another job offer of sorts a few months earlier, but I didn’t really follow up on that properly. And once I started with ReferralCandy, and started having a visible output of work, I started getting more job offers still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So the one-line answer to anybody looking to break into a job in marketing: start a blog!<\/strong> And publish regularly over an extended period of time. It can be about anything. My blog wasn’t about marketing at all, I mostly wrote about the news, and local politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the years that followed, I was also involved in hiring decisions when it came to other people on the team \u00a0\u2013 and I found that I too liked to prioritize people who had their own projects. One of my colleagues ran foodie meetups. Another ran a breakdancing YouTube channel and website. The great thing about people who have their own “thing” is that they know how to take ownership of something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s the short answer to how I got my first marketing job: the founder\/CEO of ReferralCandy, a software company had…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careering","category-howto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5wrnV-31g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11656,"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610\/revisions\/11656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}