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How Marketers Use Secondment to Build New Skills Without Quitting
Episode 129 of The Marketing Career Podcast explores secondment as a low-risk career growth strategy. Lucas and Luna break down how a brand manager at Unilever spent six months embedded with the company's sustainability team, returned with a new specialty, and got promoted within eighteen months. They discuss the internal negotiation process, what to do if your company doesn't offer formal programs, and the specific skills marketers can build through short-term assignments in adjacent functions like product, sales, or data. The episode includes concrete advice on framing the ask to…
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