Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an instructional designer can go next

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

Instructional designers develop instructional material for training courses using multimedia technology and authoring tools. They aim to create instructional experiences which make the acquisition of knowledge and skills more efficient, effective, and appealing.

Also known as designer of training courses, instructional designers, instructional engineer, instructional course design practitioner, training designer, designer of corporate training, instructional design specialist, learning process designer, instructional design professional, practitioner of instructional course design, instructional course designer, corporate training designer.

Professionals 59 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: e-learning developer, 68%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
e-learning developer 68% covered ICT trainer 54% covered web content manager 44% covered e-learning architect 42% covered technical communicator 40% covered instructional designer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from instructional 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 an instructional 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

An instructional designer needs 36 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
  • apply ICT terminology communication, collaboration and creativity
  • standards for web-based e-learning information and communication technologies (icts)
  • translate requirement concepts into content working with computers
  • apply tools for content development working with computers
  • create SCORM packages management skills
  • instructional design models education
  • learning management systems business, administration and law
  • design web-based courses communication, collaboration and creativity
  • publishing strategy arts and humanities
  • teach writing communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Instructional 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 an instructional 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.