My Marketing Applications course had a guest speaker come in the other day. A young woman who is currently working for P&G (Procter and Gamble) one of the largest and wealthiest multinational companies in the world. P&G's products include, Pringles, Tide, Gain, Always, Braun, Gilette, Duracell, Folders, and the list goes on.
To continue, our speaker works for P&G has a Brand Manager for Always (feminine hygiene). She went through what her job entails, and spoke a lot about other positions that are available at P&G. P&G has headquarters in over 80 countries in the world, giving anyone the opportunity to travel. There are usually tons of entry level positions at P&G, from their Canadian headquarters in Toronto to Paris headquarters.
By the sounds of it, I would enjoy being a Brand Manager. You make important decisions with a team of people on a specific brand. You suggest advertisement, doing research, market the product, all while working different creative teams, accountants etc.
She went over the application process to apply to P&G, it's gruesome. You first have to upload your resume to their website, then are asked to take a multiple choice test, where all answers are correct but P&G wants people who answer the questions specifically, so if you answer what they want you go on to the next level. This is where you have to take a one hour test in your university. The test consists of questions such as "There is water pouring into a cup at such such a speed, and water is pouring out at such and such a speed, when will there be no water in the cup". Now that's a terrible question, it's all math.. which freaked me out, but apparently they have a cheat sheet on their website.
So perhaps one day I will be a brand manager at P&G.
