Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a marketing assistant can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a marketing assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Marketing assistants support all the efforts and operations carried out by marketing managers and officers. They prepare reports in relation to the marketing operations needed by other departments, especially account and financial divisions. They ensure that resources needed by the managers to perform their job are in place.

Also known as general marketing assistant, marketing associate, marketing officer, marketing operations assistant, marketing executive assistant, marketing practitioner.

Professionals 52 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: management assistant, 36%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
management assistant 36% covered advertising assistant 32% covered executive assistant 28% covered advertising specialist 22% covered spokesperson 21% covered marketing assistant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from marketing assistant, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a marketing assistant already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A marketing assistant needs 21 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • assist in developing marketing campaigns management skills
  • communicate schedules to the people concerned communication, collaboration and creativity
  • revise drafts made by managers information skills
  • marketing department processes business, administration and law
  • manage personnel agenda management skills
  • draft corporate emails communication, collaboration and creativity
  • manage the handling of promotional materials management skills
  • perform business research information skills
  • support managers communication, collaboration and creativity
  • organise business documents management skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a marketing assistant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Marketing assistant is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a marketing 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.