Digital writer competencies

Digital writer competencies

In this post, you can ref competencies needed for Digital writer position. The standard job competencies include knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA model).

Apart from that, you can ref a job qualification also contains other elements such as education, experience, license, qualities, training courses, physical requirements, degree or certificates…

I. Job qualifications

You can find out competencies from standard job qualification below:

         1.            Must be a wonderful spellerrrr (that copy editing thing)

         2.            Must be interested in SEO and Social Media

         3.            If you are not an SEO specialist you must be willing and excited to learn

         4.            Preferably you have at least a few of these: Blog, Twitter, Pinterest, Quora, Tumblr, Facebook, Foursquare, or anything with your digital footprint

         5.            Must be detail-oriented and organized

         6.            Have strong computer skills (We're all Mac here, except for one dude and he's just goofy)

         7.            Posses a great phone personality (we all answer phones here people)

         8.            Have great research, proofing and editing skills

         9.            Have experience in a fast-paced environment

     10.            Have the ability to be creative, flexible and think "outside the box"

     11.            Possess the skills to multi task, follow-through, organize and manage time

     12.            Capable of communicating with vendors to ensure high standards of production quality

     13.            Must be able to take initiative on projects and work independently

II. Key skills employers are looking for

Below are top 7 skills/abilities that every employers are looking for, you should pay attention to them:

1. Adaptability/Flexibility
2. Dependability/Reliability/Responsibility
3. Teamwork
4. Positive Attitude
5. Professionalism
6. Willingness to Learn
7. Communications Skills