'Social Media Manager' Jobs Are on the Way Out

It’s still great to be a social media “ninja”, “guru”, “maven” or “master”, but those phrases probably won’t appear in your next job title (thank God). Neither will “manager.”

Yes, you can now earn an MBA in Social Media Management, but the wisdom of doing so looks less and less certain. Quartz reported this week—via jobs site Indeed—that growth rates for “Social Media Manager” listings fell by half this year (August 2012 to August 2013) while the number of jobs with “social media” somewhere in the description nearly doubled over the same time period.

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