Communication Skills and Related Careers
Skills
- Ability to write clearly
- Attention to details
- Compare and contrast evidence
- Create entertaining and persuasive messages
- Create powerful images with sight, sound, motion & words
- Critical thinking skills
- Define hypotheses
- Demonstrate creativity and artistic expression
- Develop market research
- Effective speaking
- Evaluate ideas and presentation
- Evaluate information and sources
- Gather information and data
- Identify and manage different needs of individuals, groups, etc.
- Influential/persuasion skills
- Interpretation skills
- Measure media effects
- Present specific viewpoints
- Reporting and editing skills
- Synthesizing information
- Work in teams / small groups
- Work independently
- Work with deadlines
- Write press releases, scripts, or other promotional materials
Related Careers
- Account Executive
- Actor
- Advertising Account Executive
- Advertising Copywriter
- Advertising Manager
- Association Administrator
- Bank Officer
- Broadcast Advertising Salesperson
- Claims Adjuster/Examiner
- Communications Lawyer
- Consumer Affairs Specialist
- Contestant/Guest Coordinator
- Copywriter
- Corporate Communications Director
- Credit Manager
- Customer Service Representative
- Director- Film, Video, Theatre
- Editorial Assistant
- Electronic Publication Specialist
- Events Planner
- Fashion Merchandiser
- Government Relations Specialist
- Graphic Artist
- Greeting Card Writer
- Hospitality Manger
- Hotel Manager
- Human Resources Administrator
- Industrial & Labor Relations Specialist
- Insurance Agent/Broker
- Lawyer
- Legal Assistant
- Lighting Technician
- Management Analyst
- Manager/Administrator
- Market Research Analyst
- Market Research Specialist
- Media Buyer
- Media Manage
- Media Manager
- Narrator
- News Writer/Editor
- Paralegal
- Personnel Specialist
- Photographer
- Photojournalist
- Presenter
- Print Production Coordinator
- Producer- TV, Film, Theatre
- Production Assistant
- Promotions Manager
- Proofreader
- Public Information Officer
- Public Information Officer
- Public Relations Assistant
- Public Relations Specialist
- Publisher
- Radio/TV Announcer
- Real Estate Agent/Broker
- Recreation/Attractions Manager
- Recruiter
- Reporter/Journalist
- Research Worker
- Restaurant Manager
- Retail Manager
- Sales Representative
- Sales Representative
- Script Writer
- Service Representative
- Special Events Coordinator
- Speech Writer
- Sports Promoter
- Sportscaster
- Stockbroker
- Technical Writer
- Technical Writer
- Telemarketer
- Telemarketing Specialist
- Traffic Manager
- Training & Development Specialist
- Travel Agent
- TV Engineer
- TV News Anchor
- Video Programmer
- Writer/Author
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