Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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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.

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

copy editor 52% covered cartoonist 46% covered proofreader 44% covered graphic designer 42% covered advertising copywriter 40% covered desktop publisher You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from desktop publisher. 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.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

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

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a desktop publisher already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.