New media coordinator skills for your resume and career

The important hard skills include a college degree and/or certification in writing, marketing, or public relations.

Working well with others, time management, and the ability to teach and supervise others.

If people need to take gap years, I would recommend that they continue to work on their communication skills. Read and write/create content for a wide range of audiences. Continue to learn and use technology. Look for opportunities to demonstrate leadership. And work on self-confidence. Volunteering for nonprofits that could use their help would be excellent. Those are great on resumes, will build skills, and the students will feel amazing helping others with their skills.

Young graduates will need a variety of skills that were not required ten or even five years ago. Ten years ago, they needed to know how to take pictures, layout pages, edit copy, write stories, of course, and work on deadlines. Five years ago, they needed to know how to take video on the fly, upload it remotely, and write a corresponding story. Now, they need to do all that and update concisely and quickly to many social media outlets have a shockingly accurate knowledge of media literacy and immediate wisdom in source verification. We're asking our media to accomplish; our graduates today have to be prepared to take any information, verify it, condense it, and publish it on multiple platforms.

Digital, digital, digital. Arts and entertainment organizations have become digital media organizations during the pandemic and so technical skills in social media marketing, website development and maintenance, search engine optimization, video, audio, post-production, and live streaming are standouts. And I am not even certain that's an exhaustive list!