{"id":7995,"date":"2010-09-30T07:32:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T14:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/?p=7995"},"modified":"2010-10-04T06:39:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T13:39:52","slug":"research-what-do-employers-want-in-a-corporate-social-media-strategist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/30\/research-what-do-employers-want-in-a-corporate-social-media-strategist\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Research Teaser: What do Employers Want in a Corporate Social Media Strategist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Altimeter Group is doing thorough research on the role of the Corporate Social Media Strategist.   I&#8217;ve got bits of data below, and a bunch more coming.<\/p>\n<p>Who are these people?  The Corporate Social Media Strategist are are decision makers of social media within an enterprise corporation over social media programs.  In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/30\/list-of-corporate-social-media-strategists-in-2010\/\">I have a growing list of actual Corporate Social Media Strategists right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our research will involve surveying them, analyzing job descriptions, analyzing LinkedIn Profiles, looking at HR salary information.   Beyond that, we&#8217;ve completed 49 interviews over the past few months of strategists and those they work with, that&#8217;s right, 49 to find out what works and what&#8217;s keeping them up at night.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Teaser Data:  Here&#8217;s what Employers Want in Corporate Social Media Strategists<\/strong><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a teaser of just a small part of the research findings, based on analyzing 51 (not 50) real job descriptions:<\/p>\n<p>Employers are seeking experienced professionals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5.2-6.6 years of real world Business Experience<\/li>\n<li>2.3-3.6 of actual Social Media Experience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Education Requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>76.4% request a Bachelors degree.<\/li>\n<li>11.7% prefer (yet most don&#8217;t require) a MBA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Degree Preferences<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The primary segment of requested degrees is in the area of focus of Communications, Journalism or English.<\/li>\n<li>The second segment of degrees was closely followed by either Marketing or Advertising degrees.<\/li>\n<li>Thirdly, a handful had web, technical, IT, or general business degrees requests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now to be clear, that&#8217;s just what employers <em>want<\/em>, that&#8217;s not actual reality.  We&#8217;ll be comparing what employers want &#8211;vs what real strategists actually do in our report.    <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>The Many Other Questions Our Research Will Answer<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s interesting stuff, and part of our research will to analyze and compare what employers want &#8211;vs what really exists from these actual professionals.  What else will this report answer?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Background, responsibilities, and skills employers want from this role<\/li>\n<li>Their <em>actual<\/em> background, experience, and skills<\/li>\n<li>What makes them tick: about their mindset and personality<\/li>\n<li>Top challenges they face<\/li>\n<li>What they measure<\/li>\n<li>How large team sizes are<\/li>\n<li>How sophisticated programs are<\/li>\n<li>Spending trends on Software, Agencies, Consultants<\/li>\n<li>How they organize their programs<\/li>\n<li>Where they go to learn about new technologies<\/li>\n<li>Who they rely on to make decisions<\/li>\n<li>What they think their role will become in 5 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>I have that role: I want to take the Survey<\/strong><br \/>\nAre you a corporate social media strategist and want to take the survey? We are seeking actual social media decision makers at brands and corporations, if you fit this category, <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/a\/altimetergroup.com\/viewform?hl=en&amp;formkey=dDFCNi1DdWh5NlFaY3NfbTlEeVUwaWc6MQ#gid=0\">please sign this form and we&#8217;ll email you the surve<\/a>y.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I want to be in-the-know: send me the report, Jeremiah<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you want us to email you the full no-cost report when it&#8217;s available? <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/96fWWG\">Sign up here to receive the no-cost Altimeter report<\/a>, you can read much of my previous research on my research tab on my blog, look up, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/research\/\">view research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Caveat:  The above data should be assumed draft, wait until the final report comes live for all the detailed info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altimeter Group is doing thorough research on the role of the Corporate Social Media Strategist. I&rsquo;ve got bits of data below, and a bunch more coming. Who are these people? The Corporate Social Media Strategist are are decision makers of social media within an enterprise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/30\/research-what-do-employers-want-in-a-corporate-social-media-strategist\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Upcoming Research Teaser: What do Employers Want in a Corporate Social Media Strategist?<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-altimeter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}