fact checkertomagazine editor
A fact checker already meets 24% of what the magazine editor role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.
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1 Share of the magazine editor role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the fact checker profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A magazine editor role treats 4 of its required skills as things a fact checker already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- consult information sources
- develop professional network
- press law
- writing techniques
What stands in the way is 10 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 8 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A magazine editor role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a fact checker background worth leading with.
- already held press law business, administration and law
- already held writing techniques arts and humanities
- already held interview techniques social sciences, journalism and information
- already held use word processing software working with computers
- already held proofread text communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held consult information sources information skills
All 8 carried skills, including the 4 the magazine editor role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 29 missing skills fall into 9 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held adapt to type of media required
- required, not held create editorial board required
- required, not held ensure consistency of published articles required
- required, not held participate in editorial meetings required
- optional, not held use specific writing techniques optional
- optional, not held write captions optional
- optional, not held write headlines optional
- optional, not held adapt to changing situations optional
- optional, not held apply grammar and spelling rules optional
- required, not held apply organisational techniques required
- required, not held manage staff required
- required, not held meet deadlines required
- optional, not held write to a deadline optional
- optional, not held manage budgets optional
- optional, not held recruit employees optional
- required, not held follow ethical code of conduct of journalists required
- required, not held copyright legislation required
- required, not held editorial standards required
- optional, not held edit negatives optional
- optional, not held edit photographs optional
- optional, not held apply desktop publishing techniques optional
- optional, not held perform image editing optional
3 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a magazine editor role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 adapt to type of media skill · sector specific
- 02 create editorial board skill · sector specific
- 03 ensure consistency of published articles skill · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 8 skills that carry over
- already held consult information sources skill
- already held develop professional network skill
- already held press law knowledge
- already held writing techniques knowledge
- already held interview people skill
- already held interview techniques knowledge
- already held proofread text skill
- already held use word processing software skill
The 3 learning areas not shown above
- optional, not held grammar optional
- optional, not held graphic design optional
- optional, not held spelling optional
- optional, not held check correctness of information optional
- optional, not held check stories optional
- optional, not held follow the news optional
- optional, not held desktop publishing optional
19 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held check correctness of information optional
- optional, not held check stories optional
- optional, not held edit negatives optional
- optional, not held edit photographs optional
- optional, not held follow the news optional
- optional, not held use specific writing techniques optional
- optional, not held write captions optional
- optional, not held write headlines optional
- optional, not held write to a deadline optional
- optional, not held adapt to changing situations optional
- optional, not held apply desktop publishing techniques optional
- optional, not held apply grammar and spelling rules optional
- optional, not held desktop publishing optional
- optional, not held grammar optional
- optional, not held graphic design optional
- optional, not held manage budgets optional
- optional, not held perform image editing optional
- optional, not held recruit employees optional
- optional, not held spelling optional
10 held skills the magazine editor role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role communicate by telephone skill
- not needed by the target role consult with editor skill
- not needed by the target role media and information literacy knowledge
- not needed by the target role perform background research on writing subject skill
- not needed by the target role read manuscripts skill
- not needed by the target role review unpublished articles skill
- not needed by the target role rewrite manuscripts skill
- not needed by the target role scientific research methodology knowledge
- not needed by the target role search databases skill
- not needed by the target role search engines knowledge
6 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held copyright legislation required
- required, not held editorial standards required
- optional, not held desktop publishing optional
- optional, not held grammar optional
- optional, not held graphic design optional
- optional, not held spelling optional
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.