Chart of the Day: Which are the most important skills for you to develop for your future career
In a previous article, I reviewed the most important marketing skills based on the recently published research from The IDM and Smart Insights. In this follow-up I’ll drill down to look at specific skills gaps.
This first chart is helpful since it highlights the main categories of transferable generic skills which are most important to career progression. This is based on marketers who rated these as very or extremely important. You can see that these include many of the skills topics that we focus on at Smart Insights include strategy and planning, data and insight and, of course, digital marketing. As we say, we look to help our members ‘Plan, Manage and Optimize’ their digital marketing.
The second chart drills down to show more specific skills. You can see that the main skills that are most in demand are in the top right. These include:
- Communications strategy and planning
- Marketing finance
- Analysing customer data and insight
- Client/stakeholder management and presentation
- Data analysis and reporting
- Marketing automation
- Search marketing
- Mobile marketing
To review your skills gaps and get recommendations on how to plug those gaps, see the free Smart Insights Marketing Skills Assessment which creates a personalized learning plan if you take it. It’s structured by the areas of the Smart Insights RACE planning framework.