Steps to getting into DIT - Marketing

beprint

Hi,

I am trying to do a Marketing or Business degree in DIT but unfortunately i don't have enough points. Is there an alternative route I could take to get in to DIT other than repeating my leaving cert?

Oasis44

beprint wrote: »

Hi,

I am trying to do a Marketing or Business degree in DIT but unfortunately i don't have enough points. Is there an alternative route I could take to get in to DIT other than repeating my leaving cert?

Only way you'll get in is if there is still available places after the CEO/CAO places have been allocated - which I would doubt very much.

Take my advice kid - stay well clear of marketing unless you are GUARANTEED a marketing work placement as part of the course.

Marketing is one of the most difficult areas to break into without work experience - now I know the same could be said for a lot of areas but this is particularly true of marketing. Most grads end up in sales - FACT.

If I could go back to college and start again I would do an Accountancy and Finance degree which can open up so many career paths.

beprint

Is there any post leaving course that could build up my points? I know what your saying about marketing but i would love to do some sort of business degree.

Oasis44

If your adament then check out Dublin Business School or Portobello College - you can do business courses there without the need for high points but words of warning - you have to pay alot more money to do them and they will not be considered as prestigious as having a degree from a 'proper' university (although they are awarded by HETAC which is the next best thing to a univerity/DIT degree).

Remember that Business Studies is really only for people who actually want to open their own business' (do you?) otherwise its pointless IMO

Might be a good idea to do a course like this http://www.dbs.ie/diploma-business-studies/tabid/315/ which will give you a good overview of business subjects and then you could go on and do a degree in a particular area of business such as IT, HR, Marketing etc. But it this way I wish someone had given me the advice I have just given you ten years ago so be really sure about the choices you make - there is no going back

experiMental

You can get into marketing with Arts or Psychology degree, what matters is how you can enterprise yourself with the knowledge you have.

Oasis44

experiMental wrote: »

You can get into marketing with Arts or Psychology degree, what matters is how you can enterprise yourself with the knowledge you have.

True but if he doesn't have enough points to do Marketing then he wont have enough to Arts or Psychology either:rolleyes:

Happy121

Oasis44 wrote: »

Only way you'll get in is if there is still available places after the CEO/CAO places have been allocated - which I would doubt very much.

Take my advice kid - stay well clear of marketing unless you are GUARANTEED a marketing work placement as part of the course.

Marketing is one of the most difficult areas to break into without work experience - now I know the same could be said for a lot of areas but this is particularly true of marketing. Most grads end up in sales - FACT.

If I could go back to college and start again I would do an Accountancy and Finance degree which can open up so many career paths.

I completely agree with Oasis44 about this, almost every single person who goes through marketing ends up in direct sales.

Marketing knowledge is very useful, in all businesses.

It is most useful for anyone who knows that they want to set up their own business.

If you are driven by an idea or business plan, marketing is brilliantly useful, otherwise it is a long way to get into a sales job, which you would probably get without any qualification.

experiMental

Oasis44 wrote: »

True but if he doesn't have enough points to do Marketing then he wont have enough to Arts or Psychology either:rolleyes:

I actually didn't know this - and it sounds scary. If the OP is in a good secondary school, then he should be able to get some help as far as career guidance is concerned. That's what a teacher in that area should do.

Now I presume this is the case, but I have to admit that I wasn't in the best secondary school and I wouldn't know how good career guidance should be.