I am a Sales professional. I feel unsatisfied and overqualified at my current job. I have been wanting to make the switch to Marketing and work on getting a hard skill to add value to my profile. I...

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I am a Sales professional. I feel unsatisfied and overqualified at my current job. I have been wanting to make the switch to Marketing and work on getting a hard skill to add value to my profile. I don't feel like I am getting the most out of my MBA degree. 
Any helpful advice on how to explore different career options and working towards a switch to a more fulfilling career?

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Sales Manager

Career Advice- Grapevine

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

How can I switch from Sales to marketing?
Currently working as key accont manager at hackerearth. 
I have about 3 years of sales experiences so far.
Highest education- MBA in entrepreneurship.
Please suggest.

Sales to Marketing

Account Manager

I currently work at a real estate marketplace startup and look after content, SEO, and executing facebook abd google ads. I don’t have any marketing degree yet. Whatever I’ve learnt, it’s on the job. 
I’m thinking of pursuing distance MBA, since I don’t want to leave my job. Another thought is to take up online courses by ed-tech institutions. 

Can someone guide me please?

How should I advance my career in marketing to land high paying jobs?

Growth Manager

Overview: 
Everyone around me, be it old school friends to the people in the bangalore startup ecosystem are planning to or already in the process of doing an MBA. 

What is happening:
Most of the people I know, either are going for a tier 1 MBA in India or colleges like “Carnegie Mellon”/ “INSEAD”/ “NUS” these are really good places. 

Why am I concerned:
I dont have great acade, GEM candidate so I have decided to not pursue CAT at all, and MBA outside India is too expensive. 

I feel like my job and career are going fine with 4 years of professional experience I am making 25LPA in marketing. I am not keen on doing an MBA but I dont want to regret later.

I consider myself to be fairly smart but what happens when I am competing with people who have great brand names on their resume and are actually smart. 

People on GV with more experience, have you gone through this struggle? 


Sidenote: I also have friends who have cleared IIM ABC, ISB and not gone, because they just wanted the admit letter. Which is brave lol!

Will an MBA destroy your life or make it better?

Performance Marketer

Hi,
I'm a consultant who completed their MBA last year. After doing this job however, I'm not sure I want to commit to it for my entire future. 

I am considering shifting to marketing - specifically movie/tv show kind of marketing. I'd love to speak to someone about it and learn more.

How do I go about this switch?

I'm considering switching my sector

Strategy Consulting

I’m an MBA student at a tier-2 IIM, with a bachelor’s degree in management studies and a specialization in marketing. I also have 20 months of work experience in digital marketing.

I have secured a digital marketing internship (off campus) at a SaaS company in Bangalore, through wellfound. The company is good and willing to offer PPO opportunity. My career goal is to pursue product marketing or related roles.

What are the best ways to enhance my skills and profile for core marketing roles (No sales)?

My college mostly provides sales roles in the final placement for marketing students. So I need to either get an offer from my internship company or find an off-campus placement.

My dream job is to be a digital marketing strategist at Google.

Career Advice for Marketing

Hello all,
I'm a software engineer at one of the service based companies and I graduated last yr.

 Though I always knew software engineering isn't for me, I still gave it a try hoping my perspective would change when I enter the industry. Bummer! I hate it even more

What I have realised is I don't like to code or spend all day finding a solution to an error. Not to say I don't like problem solving but I simply don't like the problem solving that is required for a great software engineer.

I have been a content writer in the past and enjoyed it. I also helped a small digital marketing agency launch a campaign for a product. I thoroughly enjoyed the process of coming up with ideas that suit the tone of the brand, writing copies and much more.

I'm thinking of switching to a marketing role or anything that aligns with what I have mentioned above.  

My question to you are:

1) Is it even possible to switch without an MBA?
2) If so, What should be my approach to applying to jobs? (Kindly tell me the specific and not just -' Make a stellar resume and apply ' kind of a vague answer)
3) What other roles can I look into?

Hate My Software Engineering Job

Software Engineer

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I am an MBA in Marketing and currently working as a Market Researcher. I want to switch to Product Management. 
Suggest a good online course which is not too heavy on my pockets or if I should I consider something else? I’m looking to pivot from MR as the pay I’m getting is peanuts here, extra long working hours without any compensation and too slow of growth, monetarily. Help a brother out. TIA.

Switching to Product Management

Quantitative Research

Welcome to Ask Grapeviners's Private Community

I did my mba in marketing ,, and working with a bank since 7 years as a relationship manager, how can I change my domain ??

Relationship Manager

I'm working with Zomato with very little money compared to what my peers from other industries are earning. I am a marketing enthu and stuck in a sales job. I switched from Finance (sales) to F&B, now I can't really see the way forward!

Opportunities in Marketing

Lead social, brand, perf, SEO, partnerships, community, growth, pretty much everything across zero to fairly high budgets. Happy to help.

Marketing lead, 10.5 years, here to help!

Brand Marketing Manager

Hello Everyone, 

I am a 2018 BTech (NIT) pass out and  2022 IIM pass out with a total of 2.2 years of Workex (1.2 yrs post-MBA) and currently working as an Associate Product Manager. I am not really enjoying my role and I feel Product Management is not suitable for me because of multiple reasons some of them being,


1. I am doing issue resolutions rather than problem-solving which I love to do.

2. I am not very much interested in driving technical discussions or solving technical challenges in the process of Product Development which is the case in my current role. 

3. I want to be part of a Business role where I can leverage the knowledge I have gained during my MBA and work on some problem statements related to the core businesses of the company. 

4. There is no skin in the game of a PM compared to Devs, QAs, and Designers. As a PM I feel I am just delegating, prioritizing, and following up with the requirements. Most of my learnings are around managerial aspects and not business knowledge. 

5. I want to be a part of business roles where I can go deeper into problems and come up with my recommendations/thoughts on them. 

I am looking for new roles where Strategy, Analysis and Core Business Problem solving are involved. I am really not sure what kind of roles are these. 

Please help me with the roles I can explore and how to approach the job search for such kinds of roles. 
Thanks In Advance.

Need Advice - Job Role Switch.

Product Manager

I have been actively applying for marketing jobs, the situation seems very dismal. Packages are pretty low, companies are not ready to pay above 12 lpa.

Without an MBA, you will suffer. With an MBA, you will suffer but will have a loan to make life worse. 

What to do in the next one year to earn more than 30 lakhs

Salary issues In Marketing

Digital Marketing

I'm a BTech/MBA Finance guy about to complete a year in software sales with IBM and want to switch to analyst or such roles in Asset Management companies. What is the best way to get in? How to prep for interviews? And what is the best way to apply if I have no one to refer me?
Since this is my first job switch what pay should I expect? Same as IBM (25 CTC) or lower or higher?

MBA grad in sales looking to switch to Asset Management Roles

Sales

Hi there,

I have 3.5 years of IT engineering experience and am considering transitioning to consulting. However, I don't have an MBA. Is this switch feasible? If so, what skills and experiences should I highlight on my CV? Are there any certifications or courses that would help?

I appreciate any advice or insights!

Advice needed!

I have done MBA from 7 years of work ex and switched into product management later. I have been struggling for the last 3 years with switching jobs every year post MBA.
 I am not able to find any anchor or goal. Further, wfh doesn't help either 😭😭. I was planning to connect with people who empathize with my situation, any guidance or help.

Is there someone with 10 years of experience who thinks, he is miserable in his current job and dont know what he wants to do in his life?

I was working in B2B Sales as a Marketing Executive for 2 years (I've quit now) and now I want to switch to Digital Marketing. I have been admitted to a course in IIM-I which will complete in November 2025. Can you please suggest what should be my next job till I complete the course.

Suggest me a career path

I've 3 years of experience in sales and operations after completing my MBA in Marketing. Tried looking into various profiles but nothing seems to be fruitful post the first or second or interviews.

Mentally drained in trying to find PM jobs. Any references from this community would be appreciated.

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