what do you need to be good at to be good at the following jobs?

Question

managing director
company secretary
finance director
marketing director
operations director
human resources director
sales director
IT director

P.S. i know that they are not official proffesions etc. I just want to know what you need to be able to do. Like being a good leader for managing director and good at maths for finance director etc.

i mean the particular skills you would need to have for each job SEPARETALY, i know you would need many things for all the jobs but for school i have to pick one for 'young enterprise' and would like to know what skills i need to be good at

Answer 1

I'm a career coach, and have worked with people in all of these functions. Let me take a stab at helping you out:
managing director
-Strategic planning and execution, budget and expense management, effective use of your people resources, leadership (meaning the ability to create a vision that others want to follow), negotiating and diplomacy skills.

company secretary
-skilled at office software applications, ability to keep confidential information, organized and detail oriented, ability to multitask and prioritize, strong writing skills, customer satisfaction focus, good judgement in deciding who needs what when.

finance director
-Attention to detail, ability to see the 'big picture' while you handle lots of detailed financial data, good relationship skills (you're providing a support function for the rest of the company), accounting and finance background (this of course includes math).

marketing director
-Strong knowledge of how to stay connected with what customers need, ability to direct campaigns that meet or speak to the customer needs, creativity, leadership, budget management, vendor management.

operations director
-Future focus, yet attention to today's details. Process oriented, able to see where things can improve productivity, bottom line dollar focused. knowledge of manufacturing and IT. Financial skills.

human resources director
-Care about helping people, knowledgeable about labor laws, knows how to motivate people, good at hiring the right people, understands the companies goals and able to put together programs to make the most effective use of the people.

sales director
-Executive sales skills, relationship building, negotiating, people skills, how to 'close' (get someone to make the commitment), must know how to motivate a team, strategic planning, financial knowledge.

IT director
-Detail oriented, see the big picture and how to constantly make people more productive through the use of technology, budget management, customer service orientation.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

1. - Usually a MBA is acceptable - Masters in Business Adminstration. Your post -secondary degree should be in Business/preferably Finance... it also depends on the organization you want to be managing director of.

2. Company Secretary - Just go to a Community College type place and take one of those 10 mnth courses in Administrative Assistant...

3. Finance Director should have an accounting designation.

4. Marketing - A business Degree which majors in Marketing/Advertising. A graduate degree is good as well..

5. Operation DIrecotrs usually have engineering degrees and then masters. They usually have experience in the trades as well...(Carpentry, electricians, so forth)

6. HR Directors (I'm an adminster) and to become a director you must have at least a bachelor degree in HR, Management and or labour relations...... or any other social sciences type degree.. combined with a MPA, or MBA, or any post-graduate masters related to managmeent and HR

7. Sales director... not to sure. I would imagine just an extensive background in sales..... along with managerial studies
8. IT director, should have a Computer Science degree, and management courses as well...

Answer 3

For all the "director" positions, you have to be good at each individual industry.

For instance, to become a finance director, you should have a lot of experience and success in some sort of finance job. You would probably have to be good at math, accounting, and/or credit.

A sales director should be a top salesperson in their industry. Usually this person would be promoted a few times until they reach the sales director position.

In other words, for these jobs you would need experience and above-average results to even GET the positions.

Answer 4

To be the "director" of anything, you will need many years of experience combined with very good leadership skills and actual management experience. To be a secretary, you will need to have good organizational skills. For most of the rest of these positions, you will need to be somewhat good at math, but you will also need to study accounting and marketing. For any professional job, it always helps to have strong basic computer skills in word processing, databases, spreadsheets, and presentations (basically anything involving MS Office programs). It also helps to have good people-skills, which is important for dealing with different types of people that you will interact with everyday.

Answer 5

I think that if you are not sure what skills you need then these really arnt the right jobs for you, perhaps you should go for something more on your level, use the skills you already have and find something that suits those. I am sure there are plenty of things out there.

Answer 6

All those positions have the following requirements: good public relations, good at directing,giving orders, excellent writing and grammar, organization skills. I would suggest that the person for this job would be a very motivated, organized and well spoken individual.Good luck in your pursuit...

Answer 7

ability to delegate, to over view, use own initiative, communicate well, etc etc.. the maths bit would stump me, yes good at finance and maths..

additional: many of the roles you state are specific to manging director of what eyc, try searching this job link, you will then see the sort of skills bases such jobs require..

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Be in the right place at the right time

Answer 10

First of all you have to learn to cater to high maintenance bosses....

You have to be organized and able to manage people well :)

Also, its not really what you know, its who ya know... Thats how I got my job as Director of Operations.

:)