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Marketing & Sales

The Marketing & Sales career pathway focuses on promoting products and services, understanding consumer needs, and driving business growth through digital marketing, data analysis, brand management, public relations, strategic communications, and sales. Marketing skills are essential in every industry — from healthcare and tech to sports and entertainment — making this one of the most versatile and in-demand pathways available. With the rapid growth of digital and AI-driven marketing, there has never been a more exciting time to build a career in this field.

TSU students commonly entering this pathway include those studying:

  • Marketing
  • Mass Communication & Advertising
  • Public Relations
  • Business Administration
  • Digital Media & Communications
  • Sports Management
  • Psychology & Consumer Behavior

Whether you’re interested in brand strategy, social media, sales, or digital advertising, this community has everything you need to launch your career. Browse curated industry articles and career videos featuring marketing professionals, explore Labor Market Insights on salaries and in-demand skills, and access LinkedIn Learning courses on social media, viral marketing, sales strategy, and AI-powered marketing — all free with your TSU login. Find paid micro-internships through Parker Dewey and browse featured jobs from employers actively recruiting TSU Tigers. Start exploring below!

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How to Use AI in Sales: The Best Coaching & Training for Sales Teams and Leaders

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Are you looking to use real-time job market data to make informed decisions about your future career path, explore relevant salary data, or identify the skills you need to build or market to get your next role? Use the following tool to explore your options.

There are two ways to navigate this tool:

  1. Keyword Search: Search for the title of the job you’re looking to pursue or skills you may have that are relevant to a particular career path.
  2. Narrow Down by Industry + Occupation: If you have a general sense of the industry you’d like to pursue, you can narrow down the occupations within a given industry to help you decide.

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LinkedIn Learning

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On an average day, each of us uses hundreds of objects. (Don’t believe it? Start counting: alarm clock, light switch,…

AI for Insurance from AI Academy by SmarterX

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AI is reshaping how insurance is priced, underwritten, serviced, and settled. If you’re a professional working in insurance, you need…

AutoCAD: Designing Dynamic Blocks

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Build intelligence into your AutoCAD drawings with dynamic blocks. Dynamic blocks allow you to quickly change the shape, size, position,…

Learning Mastercam

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Computer numerical control (CNC) milling is a subtractive process that allows you to carve digital 3D models out of blocks…

Electronics Foundations: Fundamentals

Taught by Barron Stone
Working with electronics can be a ton of fun, but it can also be a bit confusing—especially when you’re first…

The Science of Sales

Taught by Jeff Bloomfield
Trust lies at the foundation of all sales. In this course, former Genentech senior leader and Braintrust founder Jeff Bloomfield…

Sales Foundations

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What makes someone effective at sales? A genuine desire to help others solve problems. In this course, former Genentech senior…

Crisis Communication

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Every organization needs to plan how to communicate internally and externally in the event of a crisis. In this course,…

Revit Templates: Views and Sheets

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Start customizing your Revit templates to save time and create consistent starting points for every architect in your office. This…

Improving Your Conflict Competence

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Workplace conflict is inevitable. But it doesn’t have to end badly. In this course, author and conflict expert Craig Runde…

Rapid Prototyping for Product Design

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Rapid prototyping takes your designs out of the computer and into the real world, but choosing the right process is…

Creative Inspirations: Troika Design Group, Design and Branding Agency

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Ever wonder who’s behind those cool identity graphics on broadcast and cable TV networks? Come take a peek behind the…

V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max Essential Training

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Master features of the V-Ray 3.0 rendering engine and learn how to extend the range of 3ds Max with state-of-the-art…

Jonah Berger on Viral Marketing

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Why do some ideas spread while others fade away? Jonah Berger, PhD, professor of marketing at the Wharton School and…

GMUNK’s 3D-Rendered Geometric Art Series: Start to Finish

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In this episode of Start to Finish, graphic designer Bradley G Munkowitz, known to his ardent fan base as GMUNK,…

The Creative Spark: Krista Donaldson, Social Innovation Designer

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Creating a Short Film: 13 Marketing Your Film

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Yo Santosa, Branding Expert

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Yo Santosa took a big leap when she decided to quit her job as a motion graphics artist. But her…

The Power of PreViz at BMW Group DesignworksUSA

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PreViz, or previsualization, harnesses the power of visual preplanning in envisioning and designing products and workflows before prototyping begins. In…

Creative Inspirations: Harry Marks, Broadcast Designer

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Harry Marks is considered by many to be the godfather of broadcast design. More than any other individual, he changed…
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Skill Building Courses

Creating Marketing Assets with Generative AI Case Study

Use ChatGPT and DALL-E 3 to create various forms of marketing assets from product descriptions to company logos. About this…

Learn How to Use AI for Marketing

This course breaks down how to use generative AI for marketing. You’ll learn how to use ChatGPT and Midjourney for…
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Ernest S. Sterling Student Life Center – The Hub of TSU Life (2nd floor)
3100 Cleburne Street
Houston, TX 77004

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Partner with Texas Southern University: Invest in Talent, Impact the Future

At Texas Southern University (TSU), we are cultivating the next generation of leaders, innovators, and changemakers. As one of the nation’s premier historically Black universities, TSU offers a rich pipeline of diverse, driven, and career-ready students across a wide range of disciplines.
We invite companies and organizations to partner with us in two powerful ways:

• Recruitment: Connect with top-tier talent through internships, career fairs, and on-campus engagement opportunities. Our students bring fresh perspectives, strong academic foundations, and a commitment to excellence.
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Join us in shaping a brighter future—partner with TSU today.

Texas Southern University Career Pathways Center is proudly connected with leading professional organizations that enhance career development, employer engagement, and student success. We are active members of: National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) The leading source for career services standards, trends, and best practices in higher education and workforce readiness. Southern Association of Colleges and Employers (SoACE) A regional network supporting collaboration between career services professionals and employers across the South. Houston Area Consortium of Career Centers (HACCC) A partnership of Houston-area universities working together to connect students with top local employers and opportunities.

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