For my inspiration this week, I spoke on the phone for half an hour with a Bucknell alumnus who works as a Marketing Lead for Pfizer. In my pursuit of a summer internship, I decided that reaching out to someone in a marketing role would be a productive way to learn more about marketing jobs and broaden my network. I reached out on LinkedIn and asked a variety of different questions ranging from how he got to where he is today, his experience and challenges in his current job, to his time at and relationship with Bucknell.
The conversation went smoothly and was quite interesting. He explained to me his roles in leading marketing teams and what goes into to planning a marketing strategy in pursuit of brand building, product launches, sales planning and other roles. I noticed that he attended business grad school asked him whether he recommended graduate school. He explained how it really depends on what field and jobs within marketing you’re looking to pursue and urged me not to attend business school until/unless I knew exactly what field I was looking to go into.
I found how he collaborated his knowledge regarding pharmaceuticals and his marketing expertise together inspiring. All in all, he recommended going into a field you are genuinely interested in and not to jump the gun on graduate school. It was inspiring to learn about the business and marketing of pharmaceuticals, as this was a field I did not know much about and talking about his work really did interest me. I think this experience will inspire me to reach out to more Bucknell alumn to learn about their jobs.
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