Prepping to leave company paying newbie male with 2 YoE in my dept with same title 37% more than me- I am a former international nonprofit comms director w 10YoE - I took remote job posted by a friend/ marketing dir. for what turned out to be a dumpster fire company breaking labor laws + lying about its ops, staff, and product. I wanted to grow my marketing skills and stay thru COVID. The dir. friend hired me bc he was merely a graphic designer. Need career counseling from someone inside field.

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Are there any resources? When I look at many vacancies I feel so many positions are niche specializations within comms, pr, marketing. I’ve managed all, done most, but feel outrun by younger peers competing for entry level roles that still require a few years of agency or specialized experience

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“Merely a graphic designer”? I really wish you had phrased that differently because it comes off as very elitist. That “graphic designer” obviously had something that got him hired as a marketing director.
Now that being said, are you looking at entry level jobs with 10 YOE? Typically people with 10+ years are at least VPs at agencies, but they’re specialized in an area and have PR experience.
You could look to find a role within the field your non-profit was in or you may want to explore going back to the non-profit world.

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What I mean is that I didn’t have strong marketing background in my earlier role as comms director and considered it my Achilles heel… so when I took this role I was expecting to have someone I would work closely with and learn from with a “marketing director” title. That wasn’t the case as the dir was leaning on me and a colleague to bring the marketing skills and knowledge into our department while they delegated and approved our work and liased with senior leaders.

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