Advertising assistant
Also called advertising clerk, advertising trainee, publicity assistant
Advertising assistants provide support in all the operations carried out in advertising departments or advertising agencies. They ensure that administrative activities are handle and sort out. They communicate with the staff of the advertisement department and with external clients. Moreover, they have understanding of the operations in advertising as to assist with the pragmatic implementation of plans and tasks carried out by managers and consultants and for being involved in creating content for use both on-line or in print.
What you'd do
Clerical support workers not elsewhere classified · ILO- Receiving customers' orders for classified advertising, writing and editing copy, calculating advertising rates and billing customers
- Writing business and government correspondence such as replies to requests for information and assistance, damage claims, credit and billing enquiries and service complaints
- Assisting in the preparation of periodicals, advertisements, catalogues, directories and other material for publication
- Reading newspapers, magazines, press releases and other publications to locate and file articles of interest to staff and clients
- Indoors
- Sitting most of the day
- Lots of contact with people
- Good freedom to decide
- Often more than 40 hours a week
- Deadlines most weeks
- Some repetitive tasks
Will there be jobs?
Limited prospectsFewer jobs than in most work will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
More people will leave this work than new people are needed.
What does it pay?
Below averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €1,100 a month (Bulgaria) to €5,000 (Luxembourg), before tax.
Pick a country at the top of the page to see typical pay there, for people under 30, and compared with all jobs.
Among clerical support workers in the EU, women earn 9% less per hour than men. Clerical support workers · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Upper secondary or vocationalUpper secondary or vocational training in audio-visual techniques and media production is the usual route.
Pick a country at the top of the page to see where to study and the official course finders.
Will AI change it?
StronglyAI could take on part of most tasks, but none fully.
Average task score 0.63 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 4 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for clerical support workers not elsewhere classified. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).