Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a digital media designer can go next

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

Digital media designers create and edit graphics, animations, sound, text and video to assist in the creation of integrated multimedia products. They may perform activities related to the web, social networks, augmented reality and virtual reality but exclude the production of music using physical instruments and complex software sound synthesis tools. Digital media designers may program and build websites, mobile applications and other multimedia products.

Also known as digital media designers, digital media developer, multimedia developer, digital multimedia designer, interactive media designer, new media designer, digital media engineer.

Professionals 103 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: numerical tool and process control programmer, 68%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
numerical tool and process co… 68% covered computer-aided design operator 63% covered webmaster 55% covered user interface developer 55% covered web designer 53% covered digital media designer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from digital media designer, 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 digital media designer 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 digital media designer needs 24 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
  • create website wireframe working with computers
  • convert into animated object communication, collaboration and creativity
  • publishing strategy arts and humanities
  • authoring software information and communication technologies (icts)
  • web based collaborative platforms information and communication technologies (icts)
  • adobe creative suite information and communication technologies (icts)
  • integrate content into output media working with computers
  • style sheet languages information and communication technologies (icts)
  • digital content creation working with computers
  • provide multimedia content working with computers
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Digital media designer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a digital media designer’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.