Any advice for how to start my career in an account role at an agency in Chicago. I graduated college in May with a degree in Marketing and have been applying to any account roles I’ve seen on LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, and agency websites. I have networked with many people in the industry and have constantly checked early career pages. Unfortunately, I haven’t heard back from anyone except receiving rejection emails. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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Do you have internship experience? If not, start there! I started as a marketing intern for a newspaper, then got an agency internship, then got a better agency internship, then at that one I was promoted to a full time role at that agency. (You could also apply that same process to a marketing coordinator role client side - start there then move into an agency role after a year or two of experience under your belt)

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Thanks for your response! I had two marketing internships working on social media content creation and outreach. I also had an internship like college course that spanned 3 semesters working as a marketing consultant with real companies to help their business. I am currently trying to use my experiences to leverage a full time job or an internship to get my foot in the door.

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I agree with above, try to start on the client side with an internship. Honestly, right now the agency world is so very unstable and everyone is just trying to hold onto their jobs.

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