“…As social media becomes one of the most important communication channels, companies are increasingly incorporating social media as an integral part of their marketing strategy (Hood & Day, ), and employers are hiring Millennial marketing graduates, who are often labeled as tech‐savvy and socially active digital natives, with the expectation that they will be able to analyze social media data and transform it into usable knowledge (Bal, Grewal, Mills, & Ottley, ; Ross, ). However, while marketing students are proficient in using social media for social and entertainment purposes, most lack the training in using social media for solving real‐world marketing problems (Crittenden & Crittenden, ; Duffy & Ney, ). To compensate for the lack of analytically proficient marketing graduates, employers are increasingly hiring statistics and IT graduates for marketing analytics jobs (Harrigan & Hulbert, ).…”