Accord­ing to the Forbes list of the top 10 best cities for mar­ket­ing jobs, New York is among the mar­ket­ing cities where mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion­als can eas­i­ly and effec­tive­ly find mar­ket­ing jobs. The jobs range from work­ing with cos­met­ic com­pa­nies to work­ing with bank­ing and finance com­pa­nies. But in order to find and be suc­cess­ful in search­ing for New York mar­ket­ing jobs, con­tin­ue read­ing for some help­ful infor­ma­tion that you could use for your benefit.

In order to be suc­cess­ful in mar­ket­ing jobs, you must pos­sess soft skills. Accord­ing to Mike Stein­erd, a direc­tor of recruit­ing at Indeed, soft skills are impor­tant for mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion­als to pos­sess if they are look­ing for a new job. Com­pa­nies look for mar­ket­ing indi­vid­u­als who have inter­ac­tive skills need­ed to be suc­cess­ful in mar­ket­ing along with the tra­di­tion­al mar­ket­ing skills that are need­ed as well. Soft skills include but are not lim­it­ed to com­mu­ni­cat­ing eas­i­ly and effec­tive­ly with oth­er indi­vid­u­als, build­ing trust with oth­er indi­vid­u­als, and devel­op­ing long last­ing rela­tion­ships with mar­ket­ing clients.

Cur­rent­ly, New York is a huge mar­ket for mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion­als seek­ing new jobs. Specif­i­cal­ly, mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion­als at Forbes say that you can try your hand at a job at com­pa­nies like JP Mor­gan Chase (finan­cial and bank­ing), Ran­dom House (book pub­lish­ing), Coty Inc. (beau­ty prod­uct man­u­fac­tur­er), Estee Laud­er (high-end skin care and beau­ty prod­ucts), and Conde Nast (mass media pro­duc­tion). Tak­ing the advice of job search pro­fes­sion­als from the pop­u­lar online job search engine Indeed.com, these com­pa­nies are col­lec­tive­ly look­ing to hire over 70 new employ­ers to fill their mar­ket­ing jobs.

Sta­tis­tics show that the most com­mon and open­ly avail­able mar­ket­ing jobs avail­able in New York are mar­ket­ing man­ag­er, mar­ket­ing intern, mar­ket­ing coor­di­na­tor, direc­tor of mar­ket­ing, and dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing man­ag­er. Regard­less of the posi­tion that you fill in the mar­ket­ing career field, you will need to pos­sess more than just soft skills and tra­di­tion­al mar­ket­ing skills. Stein­erd also sug­gests that a good fit for mar­ket­ing jobs is an indi­vid­ual who is knowl­edge­able in search engine mar­ket­ing and pos­sess media skills as well.

Here are some more mar­ket­ing jobs sta­tis­tics that you may find inter­est in know­ing as well. Accord­ing to the Social Times web site, social mar­ket­ing is expect­ed to dou­ble in bud­get over the next 4 years. For mar­ket­ing, the reliance on email and oth­er com­mu­ni­ca­tion meth­ods via inter­net will increase by over 100%. Mar­ket­ing con­tent holds 50% impor­tance when it comes to being suc­cess­ful in the career field. Mar­ket­ing jobs involve direct con­tact to clients and oth­er indi­vid­u­als over 60% of the time.

With the grow­ing pop­u­la­tion of New York, the demand for more prod­ucts and ser­vices are on the rise as well. This results in the need for mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion­als to put their mar­ket­ing skills to the test and obtain jobs that will help those indi­vid­u­als to flour­ish in the mar­ket­ing indus­try. New York is among the best cities to obtain a mar­ket­ing job. Just pos­sess the skills that were pin­point­ed by Indeed and Forbes, and you will find your mar­ket­ing job quick­er than you would ever expect.