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Marketing and Market Research

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Opportunities

Summer 2011 - Institute of Direct Marketing Summer School (27 June - 1 July 2011)

A chance for students who are graduating this summer to gain an insight into what it is like to work in a marketing agency and spend some time in their offices in Canary Wharf. Many students who attended last year got full-time employment as a direct result of attending the summer school. For more information and to apply go to the U R The Brand website, applications must be in by 28 February.

General Resources

The AGCAS Sector Briefing for Marketing, Advertising and PR gives an overview of this employment sector and includes key roles for graduates, case studies and further links and resources. You can view or download all of this information from Prospects.

Where to Look for Jobs and Work Placements

(See also Professional orgainisations below)

www.gradsouthwest.com
Jobs site for students and graduates in, from or coming to SW England

www.jobssw.co.uk
Jobs website for careers and jobs in the South West of England. Search for jobs in advertising, marketing, PR; with area search facility.

www.simplymarketingjobs.co.uk
Search for marketing jobs in the UK - SW area search facility.

www.artsculturemediajobs.com
Job website for creative people. Includes Marketing roles, media and new media etc.

www.marketingweek.co.uk
Marketing jobs; news, trends, events etc...

www.mad.co.uk online directory, news and jobs site for advertising, marketing and creative sectors, subscription necessary to access jobs

www.totaljobs.com
Search for marketing jobs; graduate; by area etc...

www.goddardgadd.co.uk recruitment agency based locally with regional and national jobs

www.liptonfleming.co.uk
Media jobs and graduate recruitment

www.monster.co.uk
Search jobs by area, industry or career area (ie student/graduate) and other definitions.

www.reed.co.uk

www.pathfindersrecruitment.com media recruitment consultancy with graduate division

www.research-live.com Jobs in the research sector

www.pmlive.com
Pharmaceutical Marketing: features case studies, weekly news, daily jobs etc within the pharmaceutical industry..

Times, Wednesday, marketing

Independent, Tuesday, marketing

Media Guardian, Monday, advertising, marketing, creative

Campaign, weekly Friday, advertising, marketing, market research

Marketing Week, weekly Friday, marketing and creative.

Check our Jobs page for latest advertised jobs and placements , plus lists of employers by sector and location.

For further information on the job seeking and application process, and resources available, please see the Looking for Jobs and Applying for Jobs pages of this website.

For further information on Work Placements and to download our information sheet, please see our
Work Placement pages.

Useful Web Links and Jobs' sites

www.brandrepublic.com
Portal for advertising, marketing, new media, job vacancies and expert research and advice

www.lgcareers.com
Local government careers website (look at marketing section)

www.mch.co.uk
Company contacts across the UK in the marketing industry

www.marketresearch.org.uk
The Market Research Society for news, courses, careers information.

www.marketing-society.org.uk
Developments and trends in the marketing industry

www.research-live.com
Jobs, news and careers advice for research sector

www.xchangeteam.com
Recruitment site for advertising, communications, creative mostly freelance

www.datascope.co.uk
Sales, Marketing, PR, Managerial jobs in the games, internet and new media industries through this specialist intermediary.

Professional organisations for Marketing and Market

National Centre for Social Research http://www.natcen.ac.uk/ 
Social Research organisation

Ipsos MORI http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchspecialisms.aspx 
A range of research areas including Advertising, Media, Marketing, loyalty. Also a strong Social Research department. UK based but work globally.

Ecorys http://www.ecorys.com/ 
A leading European research institute based in 11 countries. A range of research areas including Social Policy and Governance.

The following websites are now the seperate research organisations that used to make up the British Market Research Association:

http://www.tns-bmrb.co.uk/  Social Research

http://kantarmedia-tgigb.com/ Media TGI Research

http://www.tns-ri.co.uk/what-we-do/bmrb-omnibus.aspx  Omnibus Research

http://kantarmedia-custom.com/  Specialist research and insight for the media sector

http://www.enlightenment-uk.com/  Marketing, research and planning

Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)
Moor Hall, Cookham, Maidenhead, Berks SL6 9QH
Tel: 01628 427500
www.cim.co.uk

The Communication Advertising and Marketing Education Foundation (CAM)
Moor Hall, Cookham, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 9QH
Tel: 01628 427120
www.camfoundation.com

Graduate Services Department
The Institute of Direct Marketing
1 Park Road
Teddington
Middlesex TW11 0AR
United Kingdom Tel:020 8614 0272
http://www.urthebrand.co.uk/contactIDM.aspx

Association for Qualitative Research (AQR)
Davey House, 31 St Neots Rd, Eaton Ford, St Neots, Cambs PE19 7BA
Tel: 01480 407227
www.aqr.org.uk

The Market Research Society (MRS)
15 Northburgh Street, London EC1V 0JR
Tel: +44 (0)20 7490 4911
www.mrs.org.uk

Royal Statistical Society (RSS)
12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
Tel: 020 7638 8998
http://www.rss.org.uk

The Social Research Association (SRA)
PO Box 33660, London N16 6WE
Tel: 020 8880 5684
www.the-sra.org.uk

Substance
3rd Floor
Fourways House
57 Hilton Street
Manchester
M1 2EJ
Tel: 0161 244 5418
http://www.substance.coop/   

Deloitte Research UK
Various locations throughout the UK. Look at website for details.
http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_GB/uk/research-and-intelligence/deloitte-research-uk/index.htm                           

Events and Careers Fairs

South West Arts Marketing (SWAM) and ArtsMatrix hold training courses on aspects of arts marketing, from basic skills for beginners through writing creative copy, to strategic market planning for experienced arts marketers and directors:

These courses are generally held at the Architecture Centre, Bristol. Visit the website for details of further training opportunities and conferences etc: www.swam.org.uk

Prospects website has a general careers fair section, searchable by type of event and location.

www.exhibitions.co.uk lists trade fairs, exhibitions and events throughout the UK. The database searches by subject, location or date.

Further Training and Development

South West Arts Marketing (SWAM)
Offer various training courses and conferences etc in particular for arts marketing.

The Chartered Institute of Marketing runs a range of courses for all levels – check their website at www.cim.co.uk.

Most Professional organisations run courses to support continuing professional development.Check their websites from the list above.

Postgraduate courses in marketing are listed at www.prospects.ac.uk in the work related courses section.

Check out the Learn Direct website for local and distance learning provision at www.learndirect.co.uk includes advice and search by location and type of course.

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