Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a subtitler can go next

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

Subtitlers can work intralingually, within the same language, or interlingually, across languages. Intralingual subtitlers create the subtitles for hearing-impaired viewers, whereas interlingual subtitlers create the subtitles for movies or television programmes in a different language to the one heard in the audiovisual production. They both ensure that the captions and subtitles are synchronised with the sound, images and dialogue of the audiovisual work.

Also known as subtitler/adaptor, subtitles adaptor, video subtitler, live subtitler, caption writer, film subtitler, subtitler/adapter, subtitlers, subtitles adapter, caption editor, captioner, closed caption editor.

Professionals 24 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: lexicographer, 34%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
lexicographer 34% covered foreign language corresponden… 28% covered speechwriter 26% covered scopist 22% covered proofreader 21% covered subtitler You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from subtitler, 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 subtitler 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

A subtitler needs 12 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
  • captioning software information and communication technologies (icts)
  • condense information communication, collaboration and creativity
  • describe scenes communication, collaboration and creativity
  • transcribe dialogues information skills
  • translate foreign language communication, collaboration and creativity
  • computer equipment information and communication technologies (icts)
  • spelling arts and humanities
  • consult information sources information skills
  • grammar arts and humanities
  • apply grammar and spelling rules communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Subtitler 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 subtitler’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.