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If you are making a career change to Marketing, do you need to start from a entry level position?

Want to make a career change to Marketing and wondering what the highest position I can obtain. I am now a ESL teacher with Psychology degree.

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1. It's best to start at the bottom in any new career. It is much easier to leave if the career doesn't suit you. You can rise that much quicker if you start at the bottom.
2. Analyze yourself whether you have the technique of selling skills. First of all, find out whether you can sell yourself. Then jump into marketing. Marketing is an art. You will find hell of lot of tasty, untasty people in the market. Adjustable, understandable, invincible, committable personalities have won. You may win in the near future.
3. You need a Marketing Degree otherwise you wash dishes like the rest of us dearie! Sorry no tack record .. you gotta "Make your bones".
4. If you are a teacher with a Psychology degree then you should have an understanding of people, if this is so then I have a suggestion for you which would allow you to get into a marketing arena. What I am thinking about would be started part time running alongside what you currently do, because yes, you would have to start at an entry level, however with a bit of effort you could reach a position of Senior Vice President within 3-6 years. If you are curious then get back to me and I will give you more details. I can be contacted either by email or through my 360 profile.
5. I was doing translation from French to English on a contractual basis for a marketing firm and they asked me to translate the idea behind a french positioning statement for a company. When I completed the work, they were quite impressed. And so, they offered me a job in August as a project coordinator starting at 45,000.00/year. I LOVE it! And from everything I've heard, if you want to be in on the graphic part of the marketing, then you need courses to back you up. But for work as a project manager or project coordinator, they like people who have good judgement. I mean, most everyone I work with has wide experience in many things, good common sense, a feel for marketing and are creative. If you aren't creative, then that's what you're missing. And that, you either have it or you don't. Do you have it?