Career path
The skills this job asks for, and the level for each.
22 skills listed by ESCO, 13 of them essential. 22 are in our skills list and linked; we measure a match on those. ESCO gives no levels, so we ask for level 3 on an essential skill and 2 on the rest.
Occupation: ISCO-08 occupations (International Labour Organization). Skills: This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission (v1.2.1, CC BY 4.0), modified by CareersMatch.
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Showing 10 of 22, essentials first. The table below lists them all.
| Skill | Type | Necessity | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| apply grammar and spelling rules | skill | essential | 3 |
| Communication | competency | essential | 3 |
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What this path asks for comes from O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0), through the official ISCO-08 to US occupation crosswalk. A competency is essential where O*NET rates it at least 3.5 of 5 in importance.
| copyright legislation | skill | essential | 3 |
| follow newspaper house style | skill | essential | 3 |
| follow work schedule | skill | essential | 3 |
| grammar | skill | essential | 3 |
| master language rules | skill | essential | 3 |
| proofread text | skill | essential | 3 |
| reproduce documents | skill | essential | 3 |
| rewrite manuscripts | skill | essential | 3 |
| spelling | skill | essential | 3 |
| suggest revision of manuscripts | skill | essential | 3 |
| track changes in text editing | skill | essential | 3 |
| use dictionaries | skill | essential | 3 |
| Digital Fluency | competency | essential | 2 |
| Adaptability | competency | desirable | 2 |
| apply desktop publishing techniques | skill | desirable | 2 |
| Collaboration | competency | desirable | 2 |
| consult information sources | skill | desirable | 2 |
| consult with editor | skill | desirable | 2 |
| lay out digital written content | skill | desirable | 2 |
| Problem Solving and Critical Thinking | competency | desirable | 2 |
| proofing methods | skill | desirable | 2 |
| read books | skill | desirable | 2 |
| review unpublished articles | skill | desirable | 2 |
| rewrite articles | skill | desirable | 2 |
| Self Management | competency | desirable | 2 |
| typography | skill | desirable | 2 |
| Influence | competency | desirable | 1 |