Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an online community manager can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an online community manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Online community managers provide and maintain an interactive environment facilitated by applications such as social media, forums and wikis. They maintain the relations between different digital communities.

Also known as online reachout manager, digital community manager, online community specialist, interactive media specialist, online content and community manager, online community managers, social media strategist, social media specialist, social media manager, social media reachout manager.

Professionals 65 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: promotion manager, 66%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
promotion manager 66% covered search engine optimisation ex… 60% covered sales manager 56% covered category manager 55% covered chief marketing officer 52% covered online community manager You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from online community manager, 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 an online community manager already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An online community manager needs 53 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
  • follow up online user requests assisting and caring
  • research website users information skills
  • translate requirement concepts into content working with computers
  • carry out forum moderation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • create content title communication, collaboration and creativity
  • keywords in digital content information and communication technologies (icts)
  • develop online community plan communication, collaboration and creativity
  • evaluate marketing content information skills
  • online moderation techniques business, administration and law
  • authoring software information and communication technologies (icts)
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an online community manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Online community manager 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 an online community manager’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.