I visited Raleigh several months ago and absolutely fell in love with the city. I currently live in Radford VA, and am in my last semester of college, to graduate with a Bachelors degree with a marketing major this November. I have a lot of experience under my belt with internships in both marketing and management, and currently have a job offer form a national retailer to become an assistant store manager after graduation, which pays great...but isn’t quite the field I want to work in. I truly want to work in marketing, and have been searching for jobs in Raleigh, but have been struggling to filter through the good and the bad.

I applied to about a dozen places over the past few days, and already have interest from Acquire, Raleigh Marketing Consultants, and others, but from what I’ve heard from bad reviews on Glassdoor as well as a few reddit posts, they have MLM direct-selling structures and just aren’t really “marketing” jobs.

Does anybody know of employers in Raleigh offer REAL marketing and/or advertising jobs for graduates with a reasonable amount of experience in the field between jobs and organizations? I just don’t want to accidentally get sucked into a ‘bad company’ that may offer me a too-good-to-be-true offer and potentially give up my current one thinking it’ll be better. I’m also extremely anti-MLM due to some personal reasons.

hey everyone!

i’m a graduate of usc with a degree in advertising and have been working in marketing for a couple of years now, mainly in strategy and social media. i’m planning to move to charlotte soon and was wondering if anyone knows good places to look for jobs in this space (outside of the usual job sites). i’ve tried linkedin, but i keep running into pyramid scheme type stuff and sketchy listings.

any temp agencies, local spots, or even weird ways you landed your marketing job? maybe you just walked in somewhere and offered to help with their socials..?

i’m open to anything. appreciate any tips!