In this issue:
- In Our Opinion: Rising Stars Are Our Future
- Announcements:
- Jon Davis Joins Accenture Interactive as Senior Manager, Digital Strategy
- Articles:
- MarketingEDGE Celebrates 2015 “Rising Stars”
- Career Opportunities:
- CMO – Customer Interaction – NEW
- Chief Creative Officer – NEW
- Vice President, Marketing – NEW
- Digital Strategist – Senior Manager – NEW
- Marketing Leader, Northeast
- Marketplace Marketing Leader
- Director, Insights and Strategy – Marketing & Sales
In Our Opinion by Jeff Gundersen & Lola White
Rising Stars Are Our Future
What an exciting time of the year for new job seekers…graduations are over or just taking place…high school graduates are thinking about the fall as they head off to college and ready to create new beginnings…college graduates are beginning their new jobs and some are thinking about (and so are their parents) where do I begin to jump start my career?
Pro-Bono Introductions
Each year for over 15 years, the team at Executive Connections identifies a talented group of young, high achieving college seniors who possess a demonstrated superior leadership abilities, and a passion and commitment to begin their careers in Marketing.
Once EC makes our pro-bono selections, we choose, coach and strategize with these college seniors to create a career map that matches their skill set and their goals. We polish their resumes, scrub their online Social Media profiles and create a bio that supports their goals through the job search process until they land their first full-time career opportunity in Marketing. Students coming into EC’s “Rising Stars” program are from all parts of the US – New York, Florida, California, and most recently Tennessee, but can be placed anywhere in the world.
This is a “win-win” for both the students and the employers since the majority of our clients have entry- level Marketing roles to fill and are inundated with under qualified resumes without the benefit of any pre-qualification from a trusted source such as EC. EC cuts through this clutter and our “top down” approach can include presenting these new seniors directly to the Chief Marketing Officer level within our target client organizations.
Our experience has shown that once C-level executives meet and review our EC up and coming talent which comes with EC’s endorsement, the selection process moves rapidly to offer. In fact, it is not unusual for EC’s Rising Stars to have 3-4 companies interested in them resulting in multiple job offers.
We believe having a choice is better than just one option. As an example, this year’s EC “Rising Star” had two of the top 100 global marketers interested and two marketing services firms interested in offering her a position. This gave the student an early chance to evaluate and choose between going to work on “the client side” vs. “the agency side.”
We know the Rising Stars are our future, and they are the future Marketing leaders of tomorrow. This
initiative is a way for us to “give back” to the next generation in an industry that has been good to us over the past 25+ years. We do it to provide “talent gifts” to our clients who entrust us to fill senior-level positions.
Do you know a Rising Star that would like to jump start their career and receive support from experts in their field? Who doesn’t?
Look for our Summer and Fall Ezines to hear from past EC Rising Star recipients, details on our selection process, and timetable for the 2016 EC’s “Rising Stars.”
If you have questions and/or feedback about our Rising Stars program, please contact lwhite@executiveconnectionsllc.com
As always, we welcome your comments and input.
Jeff and Lola
Announcements
Jon Davis Joins Accenture Interactive as Senior Manager, Digital Strategy
We are delighted to announce Jon Davis has joined our client Accenture Interactive recently in the position of Senior Manager, Digital Strategy, based in AI’s New York office.
Prior to joining AI, Jon was Founder of Kat
onah Consulting, a digital marketing and strategy consulting firm. Earlier, Jon served as VP, Group Director at eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions, Sr. Partner, Interactive Marketing at Ogilivy Interactive, and Director, Client Services at Razorfish.
We wish Jon every continued success in his digital strategy and marketing career and we will be supporting him with EC’s unique “Accelerated Leadership Transition Program” as he begins this newest chapter in his career.
Articles
Marketing EDGE Celebrates 2015 “Rising Stars”
On Tuesday, June 9th, we attended the Marketing EDGE 2015 “Rising Stars” dinner in NYC where annually they honor the “Best & Brightest” direct and digital marketers under 40YO…plus a Corporate Commitment Award (Return Path) to a game-changing company within the digital/direct marketing ecosystem.
EC extends our congratulations to the 2015 Award winners:
- Lewis Cohen – SVP, Digital Marketing – CitiCards
- Amina Dilawari – Director, Marketing Strategy – St. Jude Children’s Hospital
- Jessica Hawthorne-Castro – CEO, Hawthorne Direct
- Lisa Radding – Director, Research & Product Development – Ethnic Technologies
- Andrea Steele – Omnichannel Marketing Manager – Unilever
MarketingEDGE is a unique educational non-profit organization with innovative education and placement programs that intersect 3 audiences – college student, educators, and corporations. Jeff Gundersen of EC is a Board Trustee and this year this non-profit served over 6,000+ college students with programs including one day career forums, one week boot camps in Analytics and Digital strategy, collegiate business competitions leading to scholarship awards, and entry level job placement services.
MarketingEDGE is seeking new corporate sponsors for the 2015-16 school year, so please reach out to if you would be interested to learn more about these programs.
Career Opportunities
We have career opportunities at a variety of companies including a Global HR Professional Services firm, a Global Financial Services firm and a Global Digital Consulting firm. Please take a moment to click on a link and see the complete position description:
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