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Old Jan 29th 2008, 2:31 am
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I'm starting to look for work now our house purchase is coming along (fingers really tightly crossed still though!) and I'm struggling to find agencies or even just info on what the opportunities are in this area. Some of the bigger job search engines don't come up with anything at all if you search for marketing and Adelaide - or come up with jobs that aren't even vaguely related.

Any tips? I was a Comms Manager for a law firm in the UK and ideally looking for something similar (just not for a law firm!), events, branding, PR etc.

If anyone has any suggestions for agencies or anything like that I'd be really grateful or I'd even love to hear from anyone who has been in a similar position and can offer some sympathy

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What exactly do you mean by Comms? I've only ever heard of the expression in relation to IT (meaning communications) which is a fairly specialised techy area related to IT networking.

Perhaps your job is known by another name here?
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What exactly do you mean by Comms? I've only ever heard of the expression in relation to IT (meaning communications) which is a fairly specialised techy area related to IT networking.

Perhaps your job is known by another name here?
Um, that's one of my concerns! By Communications I mean events, literature, websites, PR, that kind of thing. Not at all techy - although I would quite happily communicate about those too

Your comment is really useful, there's no point me looking for Comms jobs here if that's not what it's known as. That's kinda what I'm trying to find out, what I need to be calling myself these days. It was difficult enough in the UK with so many different titles for the same job!
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Can't really help as I'm in IT.

Maybe you need to check out all the jobs within the Marketing, Advertising, Event Management, PR etc classifications in Seek and see which ones come up with the closest matches for what you're looking for.

Just for research purposes, search in Sydney (rather than limiting yourself to Adelaide) and you'll find more to pick from. It might help in narrowing down a job title.

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Jobs like this Emma? http://jobguide.thegoodguides.com.au....cfm?jobid=240
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Um, that's one of my concerns! By Communications I mean events, literature, websites, PR, that kind of thing. Not at all techy - although I would quite happily communicate about those too

Your comment is really useful, there's no point me looking for Comms jobs here if that's not what it's known as. That's kinda what I'm trying to find out, what I need to be calling myself these days. It was difficult enough in the UK with so many different titles for the same job!
Don't panic, it is known as Comms! More often Marcomms actually. I'm in Brisbane so I can't help but I used to work for a management consultant in this space and also had friends in marketing too - I thought it was quite an active field. You will probably find jobs are touted through networks, rather than agencies. Certainly in Brisbane, I know it's done that way a lot of the time.
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It's been a while but yes, I'm pretty sure most of that is covered by what I did!! How did you find that? I found the jobsearch website but that is now sending me daily e-mails telling me they don't have any jobs in marketing/comms for 25km round Adelaide - which I know can't be true. Thanks for sending the link though (it must be true, you really must be the Adelaide Angel ) I'll have a look round that site, really useful, thanks.

Thanks Nicky too for your suggestion, and for the good wishes

Rabsody, thanks for your comments. I stopped calling myself Marcomms Manager in the Uk as noone knew what one was there either!! I'm sure it is an active field but what you say about networks would make sense and explain the seeming lack of adverts for these roles. It will just take a lot longer that way as I need to start getting to know who I need to know, if you know what I mean!
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It's been a while but yes, I'm pretty sure most of that is covered by what I did!! How did you find that? I found the jobsearch website but that is now sending me daily e-mails telling me they don't have any jobs in marketing/comms for 25km round Adelaide - which I know can't be true. Thanks for sending the link though (it must be true, you really must be the Adelaide Angel ) I'll have a look round that site, really useful, thanks.

Thanks Nicky too for your suggestion, and for the good wishes

Rabsody, thanks for your comments. I stopped calling myself Marcomms Manager in the Uk as noone knew what one was there either!! I'm sure it is an active field but what you say about networks would make sense and explain the seeming lack of adverts for these roles. It will just take a lot longer that way as I need to start getting to know who I need to know, if you know what I mean!
I've used that site for ages, it helps to find what the damn job titles are out here because the same job can be advertised with twenty diffferent titles

I looked for Marcomms jobs, but there aren't any in ADL. They are mostly in Sydney and the ACT.

Do a search for variations of that job title see what comes up, also the links on the jobsite I gave you should give similar roles at the bottom - might be that one of them fits as well.
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I've used that site for ages, it helps to find what the damn job titles are out here because the same job can be advertised with twenty diffferent titles

I looked for Marcomms jobs, but there aren't any in ADL. They are mostly in Sydney and the ACT.

Do a search for variations of that job title see what comes up, also the links on the jobsite I gave you should give similar roles at the bottom - might be that one of them fits as well.
Cheers Wendy, I will have a proper look round that site and see what the what is. I think I'm having an unnecessary panic as I worked for my employer in the UK for 6 years so this is the first time I've been looking for work in what feels like a lifetime!

I'd still be interested to hear from anyone who has got a job of this type in Adelaide and how they went about it.
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Originally Posted by Pinkie
It's been a while but yes, I'm pretty sure most of that is covered by what I did!! How did you find that? I found the jobsearch website but that is now sending me daily e-mails telling me they don't have any jobs in marketing/comms for 25km round Adelaide - which I know can't be true. Thanks for sending the link though (it must be true, you really must be the Adelaide Angel ) I'll have a look round that site, really useful, thanks.

Thanks Nicky too for your suggestion, and for the good wishes

Rabsody, thanks for your comments. I stopped calling myself Marcomms Manager in the Uk as noone knew what one was there either!! I'm sure it is an active field but what you say about networks would make sense and explain the seeming lack of adverts for these roles. It will just take a lot longer that way as I need to start getting to know who I need to know, if you know what I mean!
Just a thought, not sure if you have been checking out SEEK for jobs? Quite often the type of roles you are after are in the Advert/Media/Entertain category, rather than the sales and marketing category (which one may assume they'd be in). I've just had a look and there are a few there like Events and Sponsorship Manager for Diageo, Media Adviser for Lord Mayor's office, Communications Officer, Public Affairs Adviser etc etc. If you have a look now www.seek.com.au and go to that category you'll see a few jobs there that may be suitable.
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Just a thought, not sure if you have been checking out SEEK for jobs? Quite often the type of roles you are after are in the Advert/Media/Entertain category, rather than the sales and marketing category (which one may assume they'd be in). I've just had a look and there are a few there like Events and Sponsorship Manager for Diageo, Media Adviser for Lord Mayor's office, Communications Officer, Public Affairs Adviser etc etc. If you have a look now www.seek.com.au and go to that category you'll see a few jobs there that may be suitable.
Now that's a job I would love! Events for Diageo would suit me down to the ground! Thanks for the tip off and for looking for me, that's really sweet. I have an alert set up but that hasn't been sent through - I assumed the keywords thing would pick stuff like that up but clearly not. I'll get that sorted and have a look through the rest, you're an absolute gem
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