Marketing assistant
Citizenship Studies, Business Studies and Statistics at GCSE, then a Level 4 apprenticeship or a degree.
the nearest apprenticeship standard, one step above A levels · 3 standards and 6 school subjects share ideas with this job · Skills England, ESCO, DfE subject content
Level 4 — England’s qualification levels run 1–8: GCSE is 2, A level is 3, a bachelor’s degree is 6.
Which subjects build towards it?
Bar — strength of the overlap relative to the strongest subject (1.00); not a grade or an entry requirement.
DfE subject content · matched to the apprenticeship standards below by sch.today
Citizenship Studies leads because the job and the course share the same ideas: media, social media, equality, budgeting.
All subjects and shared ideas6
| Subject | Match | Shared ideas |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE Citizenship Studies | 1.00 | media, social media, equality, budgeting, planning |
| GCSE Business Studies | 0.99 | marketing data, marketing mix, procurement, business objectives, customer service |
| GCSE Statistics | 0.72 | distribution, target audience, data source, reliability |
| A level Modern Foreign Language | 0.53 | social issue, register |
| GCSE Media Studies | 0.46 | distribution, target audience |
| GCSE English Language | 0.32 | evaluation, planning |
Which apprenticeships lead here?
Apprenticeship standard — the official list of what an apprentice in one job must know and be able to do; the level says how advanced it is. Level 3 can start straight after GCSEs.
Skills England, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
Where are these subjects taken most?
Secondary schools with at least 30 pupils in Year 11, ranked by the share taking Citizenship Studies, Business Studies and Statistics, weighted by how strongly each subject leads here.
Ranking — shows what pupils study, not how well a school prepares them for the job.
DfE subject entries
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What the job is
Marketing assistants support all the efforts and operations carried out by marketing managers and officers. They prepare reports in relation to the marketing operations needed by other departments, especially account and financial divisions. They ensure that resources needed by the managers to perform their job are in place.
Occupations and their descriptions: ESCO classification of the European Commission, © European Union.
This is a model of overlapping content, not careers advice or entry requirements, which employers and training providers set. Occupations and their descriptions: ESCO classification of the European Commission, © European Union. Apprenticeship standards: Skills England, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. School subjects and entries: Department for Education. Links between them are made by sch.today. Methodology.