Hi Career Doctor,

I am hoping you will be able to provide me with some insights and career advice on the next step of my career.

Let me provide you with a brief ideal of my background. I am 27 with a Bachelor degree in Hotel Management from a local university. Upon graduation, I have been working in the hospitality industry in a sales supporting role, from an coordinator to now as an assistant manager. The movements within the 4 years have made my role to be have more involvement in marketing functions to drive revenue for the company, though a lot of the times of my work is related to providing support on different company-wide sales related programmes, and sales system.

After working for few years, I am looking for a change in career to leave the hospitality industry for several reasons below –

1)    I am not interested in working in front line sales related position – then there will have limited career advancement opportunity.
2)    I feel I am not as passionate as before to my job – and find the work is so routine, with no new knowledge gained, after staying in the same company for few years.

From the work experiences in these 4 years, I find that I am particularly interested in project based marketing jobs, or event marketing, hopefully in Luxury Brands or FMCG company. Thus, now I am searching for jobs on these 2 related fields, looking particularly at executive or officer position, and have rare chances to be invited to an interview as yet. Not sure if that is related to my current job title or salary history?

I am unsure about this, but both my academic and working experience is all hospitality focus,  is there anything that I can do to make myself to be more competitive when applying jobs related to Brand management / Event marketing? 

Would be it good for me to look for jobs in these fields but with entry level positions?

Appreciate if you can advice…