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Being exceptional at what you do makes you a good hire at any age
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As a discipline, marketing skews young. In this year’s Marketing Week Career and Salary Survey, almost half of those responding were aged between 26 and 35 – way more than would be representative of that cohort in the overall working population. Just 14% were aged between 46 and 65.
In both the US and UK, according to industry surveys, chief marketing officers are the youngest in the C-suite, with one US survey citing the average CMO age at 39, versus ages in the mid-40s for disciplines such as finance and HR.
