Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a typesetter can go next

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

Typesetters ensure that printed text is correctly set and visually pleasing. While typesetting was originally done manually and later employed techniques like linotype and phototypesetting, almost all typesetting is now done digitally using design programs or specialised typesetting programs.

Also known as typesetting machine worker, designer and typesetter, typesetting operator, typesetting operative, typesetting machine operator, graphic designer and typesetter, typesetting machine specialist, typesetting specialist, typesetting machine operative, production typesetter, typesetting worker, digital typesetter.

Craft and related trades workers 48 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: imagesetter, 71%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
imagesetter 71% covered prepress operator 69% covered prepress technician 56% covered desktop publisher 39% covered reprographics technician 39% covered typesetter You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from typesetter, 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 typesetter 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 typesetter needs 26 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
  • transcribe texts information skills
  • prepare imposition working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • use typesetting software working with computers
  • track changes in text editing communication, collaboration and creativity
  • align content with form communication, collaboration and creativity
  • prepress processes arts and humanities
  • interpret illustration needs communication, collaboration and creativity
  • typography arts and humanities
  • lay out digital written content information skills
  • produce prepress proof handling and moving
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Typesetter is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. 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 typesetter’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.