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Business and Related Research Professionals

Business and related research professionals carry out a variety of research activities for the broadcast and print media, for the police and armed forces intelligence services, for national security agencies and in other non-scientific areas.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 19,684
£ 34,669
£ 61,672

New workers start around £19,684. Normal pay is £34,669 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £61,672.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 42,784 vacancies for this type of job

3.69%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Deals with copyright issues and negotiates fees.

  • Liaises with client on the appropriate image/s to be used.

  • Researches images for clients in a wide range of media using specialist picture libraries and archives, museums, galleries etc., or commissions new images.

  • Presents findings in the required format, via written reports or presentations.

  • Provides support to criminal intelligence or to military or other security operations by gathering and verifying intelligence data and sources.

  • Provides administrative support for programme development such as booking facilities.

  • Briefs presenters, scriptwriters or journalists as required via verbal or written reports.

  • Research sources for accurate factual material, finds suitable contributors to programmes or print features and deals with any copyright issues.

  • Liaises with production team to generate and develop ideas for film, television and radio programmes.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Data Analysis

  • User Research

  • Machine Learning

  • Computer Science

  • Quantitative Research

  • Python (Programming Language)

  • Market Research

  • Project Management

  • Agile Methodology

  • Research Methodologies

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Research

  • Communications

  • Writing

  • Management

  • Planning

  • Innovation

  • Presentations

  • Advocacy

  • Teaching

  • Ability To Meet Deadlines

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

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