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Get Ready for a career in Marketing, Sales & Service
 Hit the books: Education programs in Virginia
CTE
Programs in high schools, technical centers, and community colleges
This page helps you find CTE Programs. You can search by keyword
(like marketing or communications) or find programs offered at your
local high schools, technical centers or community college.
Programs
at four-year colleges
There’s a ton of information at www.ExploreVirginiaColleges.com.
The link above takes you to a page where you can look for programs
offered at any college in the state. We suggest looking under Broad
Program Area and selecting Marketing and Distribution
or Communications.
Get Experience: Internships and apprenticeships
Apprenticeships
through the Community College System
Apprenticeships can be your gateway to a great career. Click here
to find the apprenticeship coordinator in your region.
Registered
Apprenticeships
This area of the www.CareerVoyages.gov site explores registered
apprenticeship opportunities in several fields.
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| Management and Entrepreneurship |
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These people are responsible for creating and maintaining
businesses.
The things you could do:
- Be a consultant who helps other people make business
decisions.
- Start your own company.
- Make decisions about what to sell and how to sell it.
| Professional Sales and Marketing |
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These people help other companies sell to consumers
and to other businesses.
The things you could do:
- Work for an advertising agency as an account executive.
- Manage a team of sales people.
- Work with distributors or re-sellers of a product to increase sales.
| Buying and Merchandising |
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These people help companies sell their product.
The things you could do:
- Plan and purchase advertisements in newspapers, magazines,
or on television.
- Purchase the items that will be sold in a retail store.
- Sell items in a store directly to consumers.
| Marketing Communications and Promotion |
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These jobs are oriented to the materials and tactics
used to sell products and promote companies or ideas.
The things you could do:
- Design advertisements.
- Write jingles for commercials.
- Manage a company’s public image.
- Write and distribute information about a product to the media.
| Marketing Information Management and Research |
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These people study trends in people and organizations.
The things you could do:
- Develop a brand for a product and help make it different
from other similar products.
- Research buying trends in shoppers.
- Create plans to promote a company or a product.
- Manage databases of information and produce reports.
| Distribution and Logistics |
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These are the jobs that help get the products to the
people.
The things you could do:
- Work in a warehouse and assemble pieces of a kit for
shipment.
- Maintain inventories in stores and plan for restocking.
- Ship products to customers.
- Manage a warehouse.
Sales and marketing that takes place on the Internet.
The things you could do:
- Run an online “store”.
- Develop ads for Web sites.
- Study Web traffic trends and provide reports to companies.
- Create a Web program that track purchases and shipping statuses.
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