I remember how, as an MBA student, I was keen to get advice on what marketing recruiter were looking for in new recruits, and on how I could land a job in a marketing team. So, now with 10 years of experience post-graduation as a successful marketer, I felt it was my turn to share some wisdom and tips about the effective ways I found new positions and challenges. And also what to know, show and expect to become a marketer.
5. My career so far
2000 20041997 2006 2012 20162003
AN ENGINEER A MARKETER AN ADMAN
SPECIALISING IN LAUNCHING STUFF
FR UK AU/US FR
6. Power of the network
• Engineering school alumni
• Friends of friends
• Milkround / the school network
• Old connections
• Linkedin
• Any organisation, club you belong to?
7. What I am passionate about
• Creativity
• Music – playing/writing
• Street Art / Modern Art
• Advertising
• Curiosity
• Trying new services (early adopter of Linkedin,Twitter, Instagram)
• Experimenting
• Sidegigs
12. #1 BE PASSIONATE
• About your field (CRM, Advertising, UX, Product, Brand, Insights…)
• About your sector
• About the marketing industry
• Go Beyond
• Know the « gods », the mythology
23. #3 TELL STORIES
• Know narrative tricks
• Rehearse your stories / Practise & test
• Have a few anecdotes ready
• Be visual. Can you sketch?
• Always be ‘on brand’ / Always be closing
31. The parking lot
• Know your numbers / compute on spot
• Deliver value: moonlight?Volunteer time? Do a research project?
• Write a synthetic note, slideshare or blog post on area of interest.
• Be eager, not eager beaver
• Interview etiquette / Be professional
• Have a clear job scorecard
• Be a marketer: segment/target, positioning/messaging,
inbound/outbound
• Do you have a brand / a voice? Don’t be everyone’s cup of tea.
32. You’ll never be ready,
you’ll never be perfect
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe
35. Great courses
• Marketing
• Analytical Marketing
• Negotiation & Bargaining
• Some Funding /Venture class
• Branding
• Exchange?
• Customer Behavior
• Channel Management
• “Screenplay analysis”
36. Great books
• Marketers tell stories – Seth Godin
• Ogilvy on Advertising – David Ogilvy
• A big life (in Advertising) – Mary Wells Lawrence
• It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be – P. Arden
37. Where to find me
• grigal.mba2006@london.edu
• Twitter: @GuillaumeRigal
• Instagram: @guillaume
• Linkedin…
38. One last quote from my Eurostar ride
“Be raw, be you and be ready to risk it all
when it comes to pursuing your dreams.”
- Valeria Hinojosa
Hinweis der Redaktion
Counterbalance – a friend from an MBA in a very prestigious US school had a spreadsheet for her whole life
How I got each job:
Milkround
Linkedin / Network (Mindshare internship)
Having 3 kids is perfect!
I had a blog and a flickr account. Claim to fame: quote in the FT about Myspace acquisition
But now you have Soundcloud, Youtube, Slideshare, Tumblr…
Know the names, the people, not just Steve Jobs.
Facebook Ads
Snapchat API
Marketing Automation
The world has changed. Maybe i don’t need to tell you. It’s not the old boy club.
Everything is out there, all connected.
New Girl : Winston non story
Stanford study: statisctics alone: 5-10% retention rate. Coupled with anecdote: jumps to 65-70%
Example: I have 730 GMAT score / Top of my class in engineering school / …
Doesn’t tell me anything about who that person is
It was a cold, grey and rainy january day…
Nader Tavasoli, Bruce ?, Gillian Ku, John Mullins, Mark Ritson