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The service can help you with everything from career information fact sheets to personal advice by phone, e-mail or through a face to face session with an experienced marketing career consultant.

Some of the fact sheets include 'Working in a climate of change', 'Re-focus your job hunt' and 'Turning redundancy into opportunity'.

Our guide to marketing job descriptions explains the responsibilities and requirements of different positions and is available for members to download.

There is also a range of career fact sheets available for members to download: from advice on how to focus your job hunt to managing your career in a climate of change. To view these, members need to log in to the career and professional development centre.

Planning a career move

When planning a career move as a marketer it is ideal to manage the process as you would a marketing campaign. Download our career development pack which gives helpful advice on how to do this.

Further reading

When the time comes to look for a new job, there is plenty of help at hand. This page offers you various resources to help you research prospective employers and salary expectations and seek general careers advice.

Employer information

Gathering information on a company or organisation is essential preparation for a job interview, see our researching employers page for more information.

Salary information

Finding out what people in similar roles are earning will help you negotiate the right salary package at your interview.

Marketing Rewards is a comprehensive survey into pay and benefits trends in the UK marketing industry. It's published annually by leading pay and benefits consultancy Croner on our behalf. See the latest Marketing Rewards Survey for the most recent results.

*C2 is part of The Careers Group, University of London - a not for profit organisation that provides career services to universities and colleges.

Try and think of the advantages

• You are immediately available for interviews and work, making you more marketable.
• Your next role may be more rewarding in terms of salary or career prospects.
• You can look for the job you have always wanted.
• You can take advantage of the spare time by doing things you've never had time for before.

Your entitlement

You can expect to receive a redundancy payment if you are working as an employee under a contract of employment, and have at least two years continuous service since the age of 18.

If you want to check your legal rights, members receive free legal advice as part of their membership, go to the member resources page for more information.

Your CV

The style and content of your CV is a matter of individual choice, but it's important to follow certain guidelines. Your CV should be concise, accurate and well laid out, and tailored to the position and company to which you are applying. And beware, CVs can also convey unintended information about the author, such as a lack of attention to detail if they are unclear or full of spelling mistakes.

For more information on your CV and assistance with it, members can login to go to the Career and professional development centre. The centre also lists a variety of fact sheets which may help you in coping and moving on to a new role.

Transferable skills

Transferable skills are those you have developed in one role and which may be applied to another. For example, skills used by an account manager in a marketing agency in the areas of design and production could easily be transferred to a design/production management role in a client-side company.

First, work out the skills you used in your current or previous employment, then analyze how they can be applied to a new role. This will help you identify new opportunities and demonstrate your versatility.

Interviews

When attending interviews remember that redundancy is not the stigma it once may have been. When asked about it, briefly detail the company's reasons behind the redundancy, then move on to how the situation could benefit the potential employer.

For more information about preparing for an interview, see the researching employers section.

Networking

The importance of networking cannot be overestimated. It is often the people you meet in your business life who help you further your career and even secure your next role.

The key to success is to use your available resources to market yourself and try to uncover hidden job opportunities. This can give you a real advantage over other candidates.

Networking to new contacts is also key to a successful job search. Source the names of recruiters and visit trade shows with your CV, as you may meet key contacts on the stand.

For information on local and regional events, go to the Events section in the main navigation bar at the top.

Interested in working with us? We work closely with recruitment agencies in identifying professional marketers.

We work with recruitment agencies to help them identify and recruit professional marketers and to better understand the role that The Chartered Institute of Marketing plays in setting and maintaining high standards in the marketing profession.

Download the recruitment agencies document for more information.

We can assist recruitment agencies through our knowledge of the industry and our access to members with appropriate skills and experience.

If you are interested in recruiting a marketer this section contains some great information to help you.

Scoping the job specification

Download the current job descriptions guide for guidance on profiles for a number of different client and agency job roles. Members need to login to download the job descriptions guide.

Determining the skills the person must have for the job

The Professional Marketing Standards framework outlines the skills marketers should have at each job level.

Specifying the qualifications

Academic qualifications will provide you with information on the person's level of knowledge but will not necessarily indicate how good they are at applying this.

Holding a professional qualification will give you a guide to their specific level of competence due to the practical nature of most professional qualifications. Marketing qualifications from The Chartered Institute of Marketing are based on the Professional Marketing Standards framework which means that upon achieving a qualification, an individual will gain the relevant competencies required to do their job at that level. Assessments are practical and test whether the individual is capable of applying their knowledge to their own business situation.

Placing a job advertisement

Your job advertisement can be placed on The Chartered Institute of Marketing job site - The Marketer. Please visit our jobs page for further information on advertising opportunities.