Where an advertising assistant can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an advertising assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Advertising assistants provide support in all the operations carried out in advertising departments or advertising agencies. They ensure that administrative activities are handle and sort out. They communicate with the staff of the advertisement department and with external clients. Moreover, they have understanding of the operations in advertising as to assist with the pragmatic implementation of plans and tasks carried out by managers and consultants and for being involved in creating content for use both on-line or in print.
Also known as advertising trainee, advertising space clerk, executive advertising assistant, publicity assistant, advertising campaign assistant, advertising clerk.
Clerical support workers 32 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: advertising specialist, 45%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
An advertising assistant needs 12 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- file documents information skills
- perform business research information skills
- support managers communication, collaboration and creativity
- digital media arts and humanities
- liaise with advertising agencies communication, collaboration and creativity
- develop digital content working with computers
- advertising techniques business, administration and law
- develop creative ideas communication, collaboration and creativity
- use IT tools working with computers
- use communication techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an advertising assistant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- advertising specialist 50% covered · difficulty 48.1
- public relations manager 38% covered · difficulty 58.9
- advertising copywriter 36% covered · difficulty 60.2
- advertising media planner 34% covered · difficulty 61.4
- graphic designer 34% covered · difficulty 61.7
- creative director 33% covered · difficulty 62.4
- advertising media buyer 32% covered · difficulty 62.9
- marketing assistant 32% covered · difficulty 63.3
- promotion assistant 20% covered · difficulty 73
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Advertising assistant is filed under Clerical support workers, ISCO major group 4. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an advertising assistant’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.