Bridging the Digital Skills Gap - a roundtable discussion.
1. Bridging the Digital Skills Gap
- a roundtable discussion
21 April 2016
Rebecca Moore
Digital Marketing Manager, University of
South Wales
2. • To get your thoughts how USW can provide graduates with
the right skills
• To show what kind of graduates we currently produce and
how you can use our current students to help with projects
• To show you what courses USW can offer
Digital Skills – why this
discussion?
3. • Have we encountered any problems recruiting the right
staff?
• What skills do we feel we lack in our organisations?
• Do we lack any skills ourselves?
• Where do we go to learn new skills?
Digital Skills – what are we
lacking?
4. • PPC expertise
• Search marketing
• Content marketing
• Digital strategy
• CRM and data
Top 5 missing skills?
5. • PPC expertise
• Search marketing
• Content marketing
• Digital strategy
• ?
Case study
6. • PPC expertise
• Search marketing
• Content marketing
• Digital strategy
• ?
Within two months…
7. • Set up and managed USW’s Welsh language Twitter and
Facebook page
• Managed shifts on the USW main social media accounts
• Filmed and edited ten videos
• Directed a number of successful photo shoots
• Undertaken valuable competitor research
Within 7 weeks, a media
production graduate has…
8. • Journalism/Photojournalism - content
• Media production/media technology - content
• Advertising design - content
• Postgraduate digital marketing (not many specialist
undergraduate courses out there) – strategy
• CAM Diploma in Digital Marketing - strategy
What courses?
9. • Not taught in marketing degrees?
• Where do we go for more than a two day course?
• Any alternative to using agencies?
• Looking for opportunities to work with agencies to teach these
skills within undergraduate courses
PPC and search marketing
10. • Placements and Graduates – Siwan Rees in Careers office
• Postgraduate marketing courses – Jonathan Deacon or
Jackie Harris
Contacts