text: what are the best opportunities for a new grad in marketing who's interested in advertising (excluding sales) advertising/ making commercials/ market research no matter what you do you canb't exclude sales. after all, isn't that what marketing is all about? the best marketing people i know have had some sales experience.   whater are your specific interests? if you know what motivates you will will be more inclinced to do good work. realize, however, there are a gazillion business administration grads with mbas from top schools out there that are after the same jobs.   if youare interested in advertising, look at a local paper, take a marketing assistant position to learn the business and forget everything you learned in school because the real world is already ten years ahead of what you learned.