RecordMove

Marketing assistant to management assistant

A marketing assistant already meets 36% of what the management assistant role asks for. The move turns on 11 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional

From marketing assistant

Distant match

To management assistant

14 You already bring

11 Still to learn

41 Skills in the target role2

Learning distance Substantial retraining

64.3/ 100

adjacentmoderatesubstantialcareer change

1 How much of what a management assistant is expected to do is already part of a marketing assistant’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the management assistant role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.

Why

Why this move works

A management assistant role treats 7 of its required skills as things a marketing assistant already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

build business relationships
draft corporate emails
perform business research
process commissioned instructions
support managers
use different communication channels

What stands in the way is 11 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 14 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A management assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a marketing assistant background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area

already held revise drafts made by managers information skills
already held marketing department processes business, administration and law
already held manage personnel agenda management skills
already held draft corporate emails communication, collaboration and creativity
already held draft press releases communication, collaboration and creativity
already held perform business research information skills

All 14 carried skills, including the 7 the management assistant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 27 missing skills fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.

Skill to pick up Tier

01 management skills 5 required, 2 supplementary

still to learn coordinate events required
still to learn disseminate messages to people required
still to learn fix meetings required
still to learn perform clerical duties required
still to learn use office systems required

optional, not held perform cost accounting activities optional
optional, not held use free typing techniques optional

02 communication, collaboration and creativity 4 required, 1 supplementary

still to learn liaise with board members required
still to learn disseminate internal communications required
still to learn liaise with managers required
still to learn maintain internal communication systems required

optional, not held write meeting reports optional

03 business, administration and law 1 required, 8 supplementary

still to learn company policies required

optional, not held accounting department processes optional
optional, not held financial department processes optional
optional, not held legal department processes optional
optional, not held operations department processes optional
optional, not held human resources department processes optional
optional, not held management department processes optional
optional, not held personnel management optional
optional, not held sales department processes optional

04 working with computers 1 required

still to learn use spreadsheets software required

05 information skills 4 supplementary

optional, not held apply statistical analysis techniques optional
optional, not held maintain register of shareholders optional
optional, not held maintain statutory books optional
optional, not held track key performance indicators optional

06 assisting and caring 1 supplementary

optional, not held assist visitors optional

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a management assistant role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 14 skills that carry over

Skill Type

already held build business relationships skill
already held draft corporate emails skill
already held perform business research skill
already held process commissioned instructions skill
already held support managers skill
already held use different communication channels skill
already held write work-related reports skill
already held draft press releases skill
already held manage personnel agenda skill
already held marketing department processes knowledge
already held public relations knowledge
already held revise drafts made by managers skill
already held speak different languages skill
already held translate language concepts skill

16 supplementary skills, helpful but not required

Skill to pick up Tier

optional, not held accounting department processes optional
optional, not held financial department processes optional
optional, not held legal department processes optional
optional, not held operations department processes optional
optional, not held apply statistical analysis techniques optional
optional, not held assist visitors optional
optional, not held human resources department processes optional
optional, not held maintain register of shareholders optional
optional, not held maintain statutory books optional
optional, not held management department processes optional
optional, not held perform cost accounting activities optional
optional, not held personnel management optional
optional, not held sales department processes optional
optional, not held track key performance indicators optional
optional, not held use free typing techniques optional
optional, not held write meeting reports optional

38 held skills the management assistant role does not ask for

Skill Type

not needed by the target role accounting knowledge
not needed by the target role adobe creative suite knowledge
not needed by the target role apply social media marketing skill
not needed by the target role assist in developing marketing campaigns skill
not needed by the target role attend trade fairs skill
not needed by the target role collaborate in the development of marketing strategies skill
not needed by the target role commercial law knowledge
not needed by the target role communicate schedules to the people concerned skill
not needed by the target role conduct public presentations skill
not needed by the target role contact customers skill
not needed by the target role customer relationship management knowledge
not needed by the target role design questionnaires skill
not needed by the target role develop digital content skill
not needed by the target role execute email marketing skill
not needed by the target role follow the statutory obligations skill
not needed by the target role liaise with advertising agencies skill
not needed by the target role liaise with financiers skill
not needed by the target role manage the handling of promotional materials skill
not needed by the target role manage website skill
not needed by the target role market research knowledge
not needed by the target role marketing analytics knowledge
not needed by the target role marketing management knowledge
not needed by the target role online ads campaign techniques knowledge
not needed by the target role organise business documents skill
not needed by the target role perform market research skill
not needed by the target role perform mystery shopping skill
not needed by the target role perform office routine activities skill
not needed by the target role persuade clients with alternatives skill
not needed by the target role prepare exhibition marketing plan skill
not needed by the target role prepare presentation material skill
not needed by the target role prepare visual data skill
not needed by the target role relationship marketing knowledge
not needed by the target role revise questionnaires skill
not needed by the target role services marketing knowledge
not needed by the target role social media management knowledge
not needed by the target role statistics knowledge
not needed by the target role tabulate survey results skill
not needed by the target role update budget skill

9 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to pick up Tier

still to learn company policies required
optional, not held accounting department processes optional
optional, not held financial department processes optional
optional, not held legal department processes optional
optional, not held operations department processes optional
optional, not held human resources department processes optional
optional, not held management department processes optional
optional, not held personnel management optional
optional, not held sales department processes optional

Index

Other moves recorded from marketing assistant

Full index of moves from marketing assistant

FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can a marketing assistant become a management assistant?

Yes, and it is a substantial move. A marketing assistant already covers 36% of what a management assistant is expected to do: 14 skills carry over, 7 of which the management assistant role treats as required.

What skills does a marketing assistant need to become a management assistant?

11 required skills are missing, plus 16 optional ones. They fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by management skills. The single most important is company policies.

How hard is the move from marketing assistant to management assistant?

Its learning distance is 64.3 out of 100, which is the substantial band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.