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If you are a college student interested in starting a career in the advertising sector after graduation, there are several interesting entry level positions available to you. This article will discuss a few of those positions and the duties they involve.

The advertising media planner is responsible for the pathway that advertising media takes to get into the hands of the targeted audience. Using the fields of televisions, print media, radio and the Internet, the advertising media planner distributes the message the company wishes to be delivered. The advertising media manager is responsible for choosing the best medium for disbursing this information and may employ a variety of media choices in their work. Thus, the targeted audience is reached by whatever means is necessary. For this reason, you may see advertisements aimed at the older generation being placed in printed news media or those targeting college age individuals being placed on the Internet.

Another entry level job that is closely tied to the advertising media planner is that of media traffic personnel. These people research the different forms of media and the people who use each form to discover their viability for advertising. They then work with the advertising media planner to purchase advertising space or time slots for the areas and times where the advertising media planner has chosen to place their messages.

One of the most important entry level jobs in the advertising world is that of the creative department. Without these people, none of the other entry level positions would even exist. The creative department includes the writers who create the ad copy, the illustrators who supply the graphics and other creative minds who assist in the formulation of the advertising media.

This has been just a short list of some of the various entry level jobs in the field of advertising and it is by no means a complete list. Hopefully, it has given you some ideas of where you might be interested in positioning yourself with an advertising career. If so, the entry level job and internship pages at CollegeRecruiter.com make a great place to start your search for entry level job opportunities.