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Moving Forward: How Cassie Kopecky Landed Her Dream Job During the Chaos of COVID-19
Starting up her computer, Cassie Kopecky gets her workspace ready for another day as Manager of Marketing and Social Media at The Alexander Group. One year ago, Cassie was a creative coordinator for a start-up nonprofit healthcare organization in Austin, Texas. She wore many hats in this position from event planning to digital marketing, she…
Marketing a Marketer: How Blasita Lopez Upskilled to Land a New Job
Even with a degree in broadcast journalism, a storied career managing outreach campaigns, and working for the city of Laredo, Texas, Blasita Lopez struggled to return to her marketing roots in early 2021. “I wanted to update my marketing skill set because I had a lot of traditional marketing experience in my previous related roles,”…
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Gone Fishing: How Boot Camp Student Murray Martin Combined His Personal Passion With Digital Marketing
“When I began The Digital Marketing Boot Camp at The University of Texas McCombs School of Business, I thought I knew about digital marketing,” said Murray Martin. “But after that first day in class, I realized I knew nothing.” What led him to that moment of realization happened many years earlier. Murray was involved in…
The Most Common Digital Marketing Career Paths
There are a lot of reasons to choose a digital marketing career path. For one, it’s a thriving industry — today, countless consumers buy products based on the ads they see as they navigate search engines, scroll through social media platforms, and open emails. Digital dominates the marketing sector; according to Deloitte and the American…
Hiring During COVID-19: 3 Lessons Learned From Digital Marketing Boot Camp — and the Resulting Job Search for Fernando Cisneros
Fernando Cisneros grew up and completed his bachelor’s degree in business administration in Mexico, but when he moved to the U.S., he struggled to put it to use. He applied to countless jobs, but employers in the states didn’t seem to recognize its merit the same way they did back home. In Mexico, he had co-owned…