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Employee assigned marketing tasks outside professional expertise

🧭 worksocial problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 3/5

An education professional reports being overwhelmed and underqualified after their job responsibilities shifted from student activity planning to marketing, a field in which they have no formal training or experience.

Who's affected: An education professional whose job role has expanded into marketing duties.

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A mentorship platform connecting educators with marketing professionals for quick, role-specific skill coaching.
  2. A template library for educators tasked with marketing that provides plug-and-play event promotion strategies.
  3. A negotiation guide and script template for employees to request role realignment or professional development funding from management.
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Real voices

“I am being asked to do marketing... I feel I am not cut out for this job as the focus has become more marketing than education.”

Source: Stack Exchange (workplace) · CC BY-SA 4.0, user-contributed content from Stack Exchange; summarized and modified

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