Marketing Major

nolababe90
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:46:58 +0000

I am currently a maketing major (3rd year) and I intern for a major fashion company. To be honest, many of the individuals in the marketing department are not even marketing majors. Many are communications or even english. I believe I am the only one in the department that studied marketing. Marketing does not require an actual skill say like a computer programmer. As long as you are creative, well spoken, and excel at writing you will be successful in marketing. After interning, I am thinking of switching my major because marketing is really cut-throat there is no job stability. I have seen people in my company get cut from left to right. Due to the economy-- companies are trying to downsize and combine job descriptions. Therefore, if you combine say marketing and finance or marketing or accounting it would make you more competative and you can perform different tasks. This may not be 100% factual for all companies though, mine might be a bit more intense because we are a major clothing line. I don’t mean to scare you- I just wish someone gave me real insight when I was chosing my major but everyone is different. You have ALOT of time to decide. I suggest finding an internship your sophmore year to test out if you like it or not. Good luck!