Career Overlap Occupation record
RecordJob

Where a writer can go next

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

Writers develop content for books. They write novels, poetry, short stories, comics and other forms of literature. These forms of writing can be fictional or non-fictional.

Also known as essay writer, medical writer, creative writer, technical writer, fictional writer, travel guide writer, essayist, poet, textbook writer, noir writer, novelist, science-fiction writer.

Professionals 32 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: speechwriter, 66%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
speechwriter 66% covered script writer 40% covered copy editor 39% covered lexicographer 38% covered critic 36% covered writer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from writer, 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 writer 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 writer 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
  • write dialogues communication, collaboration and creativity
  • write storylines communication, collaboration and creativity
  • critically reflect on artistic production processes communication, collaboration and creativity
  • publishing market business, administration and law
  • select subject matter communication, collaboration and creativity
  • perform background research on writing subject information skills
  • publishing industry business, administration and law
  • types of literature genres arts and humanities
  • use specific writing techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
  • literature arts and humanities
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Writer 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 writer’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.