Career Overlap Occupation record
RecordJob

Where a desktop publisher can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a desktop publisher already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Desktop publishers are responsible for the layout of publications. They use computer software to arrange texts, photographs and other materials in a pleasing and readable finished product.

Also known as financial desktop publisher, desktop designer, electronic pre-press technician, DTP operator, advanced desktop publilsher, desktop-publishing editor, desktop publishing graphic designer, electronic-publishing specialist, publications specialist, electronic publisher, web publications designer, layout editor.

Professionals 44 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: copy editor, 52%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
copy editor 52% covered cartoonist 46% covered proofreader 44% covered graphic designer 42% covered advertising copywriter 40% covered desktop publisher You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from desktop publisher, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a desktop publisher already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A desktop publisher needs 20 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • align content with form communication, collaboration and creativity
  • prepress processes arts and humanities
  • typography arts and humanities
  • translate requirements into visual design communication, collaboration and creativity
  • search databases working with computers
  • digital media arts and humanities
  • computer graphics information and communication technologies (icts)
  • follow a brief communication, collaboration and creativity
  • desktop publishing information and communication technologies (icts)
  • develop digital content working with computers
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a desktop publisher does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Desktop publisher is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a desktop publisher’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.