{"id":25472,"date":"2019-08-15T16:58:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/?page_id=25472"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:33:14","slug":"marketing-sales-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/marketing-sales-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing &#038; Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the Industry Area<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The field of marketing promotes a broad management perspective with a large variety of functions, companies, industries, and geographies, resulting in a variety of career pathways to choose from.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/files\/2019\/09\/Marketing-Career-Paths.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marketing Career Paths for undergraduate students<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetonline.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marketing Career Info (O*Net)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/ooh\/management\/advertising-promotions-and-marketing-managers.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advertising, Promotions, &amp; Marketing Managers (Bureau of Labor Statistics)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/ooh\/business-and-financial\/market-research-analysts.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Market Research Analysts Occupational Outlook (Bureau of Labor Statistics)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/ooh\/management\/public-relations-managers.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public Relations &amp; Fundraising Managers (Bureau of Labor Statistics)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/ooh\/management\/sales-managers.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sales Managers (Bureau of Labor Statistics)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Student Involvement Opportunities<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Student employment: Marketing and Communications Department<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Student Government Association: various marketing roles for branches, events, clubs\/organizations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Student employment: Piper Center Operations and Marketing Team<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Student employment: St. Olaf annual fund<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recruiting Context<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Companies recruit for marketing job and internships throughout the academic year. Job and internship recruitment for the upcoming summer starts as early as September.\u00a0 Although internship and job opportunities are available throughout the year, the recruitment cycle skews toward the second half of the academic year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marketing covers a large variety of functions, companies, and industries, and the recruiting context will vary accordingly. An informational interview at an agency may quickly turn into a recruiting interview, whereas larger corporate environments will have more formal processes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Networking and professional connections can be very important for identifying internship and job opportunities. LinkedIn is the best way to connect with marketing professionals.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Job Postings<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On-Campus<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attend the Recruiting Showcase event in September, and the MN Private Colleges Job and Internship Fair in February<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Olaf College\u2019s Handshake database<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check company websites directly!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">General Job &amp; Internship Search Resources<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.ama.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">jobs.ama.org\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indeed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indeed.com<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glassdoor.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Glassdoor.com<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professional Groups<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amaminnesota.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Marketing Association-Minnesota Chapter<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ama.org\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Marketing Association-National Chapter<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Industry Area The field of marketing promotes a broad management perspective with a large variety of functions, companies, industries, and geographies, resulting in a variety of career pathways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1238,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25472","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25472"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49777,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25472\/revisions\/49777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}