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Where an ICT documentation manager can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an ICT documentation manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

ICT documentation managers are in charge of managing the documentation development process in accordance with legal requirements, standards, organisational policies and goals. They schedule, control and direct the resources, people, funding and facilities of the documentation department (including establishing budgets and timelines, risk analysis and quality management). They also develop documentation standards, structuring methods and media concepts to effectively communicate product concepts and usage.

Also known as documentation manager, ICT documentation managers, technical communication manager, IT documentation manager.

Managers 37 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: ICT operations manager, 23%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
ICT operations manager 23% covered ICT vendor relationship manag… 22% covered ICT project manager 22% covered ICT auditor manager 17% covered technical communicator 16% covered ICT documentation manager You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from ICT documentation manager, 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 an ICT documentation manager already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An ICT documentation manager needs 18 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
  • provide guidelines for content development management skills
  • manage information sources information skills
  • develop information standards management skills
  • manage content development projects management skills
  • manage content metadata information skills
  • content development processes arts and humanities
  • industrial software information and communication technologies (icts)
  • manage human resources management skills
  • disseminate internal communications communication, collaboration and creativity
  • identify legal requirements information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an ICT documentation manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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ICT documentation manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. 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 an ICT documentation manager’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.