Digital Marketing Assistant
Are you interested in social media and digital design? And want to learn how you gain access to a job with ever-changing and exciting projects?
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Digital Marketing Assistant careers: What's involved
A digital marking assistant is generally part of a larger projects team working towards a business goal.
The role of a digital marketing assistant is as you might think, helping with social media, IT and website management for the business.
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How much money can you earn as a Digital Marketing Assistant?
These LMI Job Trends give you a sneak peek of how much you could earn starting out for this career, and how much your salary could grow with experience.
Salary guide for Digital Marketing Assistant jobs
As with all these kinds of jobs, the more experience you have, the more money you can be expected to earn.
With the amount of variety this job can offer within different business, it is hard to judge exactly how much one could earn.
Starting out in the role, you might expect between £23,000 – £25,000. However, you can earn up to £40,000 – £50,000 depending on the business and the amount of experience one has.
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Skills you need to become a Digital Marketing Assistant
Being a Digital Marketing Assistant requires quite a few different skills, a mixture of analytical and practicable skills.
Useful skills to put in your CV:
Creativity: With this role, you have be creative as you will have to design adverts, graphics or to edit videos. All of there require an element of creativity to reach an outcome that is attention grabbing, fresh design and message and positivity about the business.
IT skills: One will need to have an understanding of computers, websites and applications. This role has heavy use of design suites, social media platforms and website builders. Having confident IT skills is an important asset for this role.
Media skills: Being able to create graphics and adverts in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator is an essential skill for this position as it will be a majority of your job role. You will also need the ability to edit video clips in Adobe Premier Pro or After Effects for the website, business partnerships or social media. This role also requires experience with website builders such as WordPress, while also having a knowledge of coding HTML, CSS and Javascript will be useful.
Social media skills: One will need to have knowledge and an understanding of how different social media platforms are used, the demographic they attract and how they run. The main social media platforms used are Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and X (Twitter).
Time Management: While working as part of a team with multiple projects at once, you will have to be good at managing time and projects to reach deadlines, while also achieving high quality work that matches the business’ values and message.
Problem Solving: This role also come with an element of problem solving, such as a website glitch, a broken link or new and fresh ideas for social media marketing for the business.
Collaboration and Communication: One must be able to work within a team with good communication so projects progress. The team will discuss ideas and plans while also giving and receiving feedback from the team so the desired outcome is achieved within the set timeframe.
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How Do You Get These Skills?
Vocational qualifications and work experience will help you build these skills over time.
What Qualifications & Training Do You Need For Digital Marketing Assistant Careers?
There are three main pathways you could explore if you want to become a Digital Marketing Assistant: apprenticeships, university, and working your way up.
What Work Experience Do You Need For Digital Marketing Assistant Jobs?
You can gain experience for this role a few different ways such as;
Working as a digital or graphic designer you can gain skills using applications such as Adobe Photoshop and InDesign, etc.
Creating and maintaining an online portfolio, giving you skills of website management, website builders and problem solving.
Social media account management can be gained by running your own as a creative and promoting your own work which can lead to freelance work which can be great experience.
What Does A Digital Marketing Assistant Do?
You will be part of a vibrant and diverse industry that works tirelessly every day to help keep people in safe and hygienic environments! Your specific job requirements may change depending on what part of the industry you work in!
In all parts of the industry you can expect to:
How To Find Digital Marketing Assistant Jobs: Next Steps
Stay up to date with new software and technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (generative fill on Photoshop or Chat GPT for writing). Also, try learning new software by setting your own brief or following ones online free. Manage your own social media platforms and promote either your own work or client work, to gain relevant experience to show a possible employer.
You can take a look at our database of local opportunities to see if there are any relevant jobs, work placements, or careers events and workshops to help you get started.
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