Upon completion of these materials, students will know the basics of digital marketing including history, importance, and strategies.
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Lesson materials include:
Helping your students discover, understand, and evaluate various career paths and occupations within the Marketing cluster that align with their personal interests, skills, and values.
MyCareerTech offers full occupation reports on 30 Occupations across the 5 Marketing Career Pathways.
Employees in professional sales are involved in the transfer of goods and services in the economy, both to businesses and to individual consumers.
Marketing communications employees plan, coordinate and implement marketing strategies advertising promotion and public relations activities. Because of the importance and high visibility of their jobs, these individuals often are prime candidates for advancement.
People with careers in marketing management formulate policies and direct the operations of businesses and corporations, nonprofit institutions and other organizations. In small firms, the owner or chief executive officer may assume all advertising, promotions, marketing, sales and public relations responsibilities. In large firms, which may offer numerous products and services nationally or even worldwide, an executive vice president directs overall advertising, promotions, marketing, sales and public relations policies.
Employees in marketing research are concerned with understanding people and organizations. They collect and analyze many different types of information to design new products, to predict future sales and to position their own company's strategies against those of its competitors.
Employees in buying and merchandising positions get the product into the hands of the customer. This process includes forecasting, planning, buying, displaying, selling and providing customer service.
MyCareerCorner is a series of short, 3–5-minute video Q&A from individuals across different careers and occupations giving insight and advice about their job, industry, and real-life professional experiences. Each MyCareerCorner episode includes an online activity that will challenge students to think deeper about the cluster and apply what they’ve learned.
Scott Beyer describes his role and the responsibilities he as a Sales Director in the Display Media Advertising space.
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