| As more and more manufacturing and service jobs | | | | clients with numerous services. Services include, but |
| move overseas, many displaced workers are taking | | | | are in no way limited to creating print, TV and radio |
| advantage of the growth in the advertising, marketing | | | | ads; handling direct mail pieces; establishing billboards, |
| and communication fields. U.S. Bureau of Labor | | | | display ads, press materials, promotional items, plus, |
| statistics show that in 2004 advertising and public | | | | finding new and exciting ways to help market products |
| relations non-manager level workers made on | | | | and services to consumers and businesses. Specific |
| average $633 a week. Though many jobs here in the | | | | jobs in advertising and communications range from art |
| U.S. can be outsourced to foreign nationals, it takes | | | | directors, copywriters, graphic designers, and media |
| home grown individuals with knowledge of local | | | | researchers to account representatives, computer |
| customs, norms, idioms and culture to be able to | | | | specialists, and digital photographers. These jobs can |
| market products and services to other Americans. | | | | be high energy and intense but also a lot of fun while |
| With the Internet providing yet another outlet for | | | | providing a comfortable salary. |
| advertisers and marketers, this is a job-producing | | | | Getting on the road to a better job is a lot more simple |
| industry that will continue to grow in the future. | | | | and convenient these days. With the Internet and its |
| Unlike all those disappearing jobs that require little | | | | interactive capabilities, opportunities are abound online |
| education and with training mostly provided by the | | | | that can provide you with the perfect education from |
| employer, jobs in advertising, marketing and | | | | the comfort of your own home. Advertising and |
| communications, do require you to have a college | | | | communications are industries uniquely suited for |
| degree. If you are willing to study and learn new skills it | | | | learning over the Internet: allowing you to gather all the |
| can be worth every penny spent. According to U.S. | | | | tools and know-how you will need to be successful in |
| Department of Labor statistics over 57,000 Americans | | | | this extremely competitive industry. |
| were employed as advertising and communications | | | | If the advertising, marketing, and communications fields |
| professionals, averaging annual incomes from $46,000 | | | | are where you would like to start your new quest for |
| for a designer to $96,000 for marketing management | | | | success, check out the many online advertising degree |
| positions. | | | | opportunities that Ellis College and Cardean College |
| These jobs require a wide range of skill sets and | | | | offer. Such institutions will enable you to receive the |
| disciplines with plenty of variety to satisfy the interests | | | | education you need to take advantage of the many |
| of most everyone. If you do decide to work for an | | | | opportunities awaiting you in advertising, public relations, |
| advertising agency, public relations firm, or other | | | | marketing and communications. |
| marketing-related business, you would help provide | | | | |