Aspiring to Succeed: Developing Skills and Attributes for a Career as a Marketing Manager

Aspiring to Succeed

Introduction
Skills and attributes are one of the most important thing to consider
for effective professional career. There are various kinds of
employability skills like communication skill, time management skill
and many others. Attributes are the characteristics of an individual
which define their personality like trustworthy, focussed, responsible
and many others. The following PPT will cover ongoing skill audit
table, 5 step aspiration development plan with SMART objectives,
justification for importance of aspiration plan and an attractive plan
for next 4 years to achieve set goals.
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Skills
Time
managemen
t
Communicatio
n
IT
Self
Manageme
nt
People
Manageme
nt
Team
Working &
Networking
Critical
Thinking
Problem
Solving

Chosen Job role- Marketing manager
Marketing manager is the job role where the individual is
responsible to manage the marketing activities of an
organisation. Their main role is to promote the
company’s product to end customers. Sometimes they
directly communicate with their customers. Hence, few
of the skills are essential for them to learn for their job
role.

Skills
Activity
There are few of the skills which I need to develop for my chosen
job role as marketing manager and these skills are mentioned below-
• Communication skill
• Problem solving skill
• Time management skill
• Team working skill
• IT skill
• Critical thinking skill

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From all these skills few of the skills will be learned
at schools and universities and few are learned
outside schools. I have decided to learn problem
solving skill, IT skill and time management skill at
school and critical thinking skill and communication
skill are learned outside the school.