Occupation Atlascommunication scientist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/6cd08cbe-7611-4d70-8886-6c59c0385442
communication scientist
Communication scientists research the different aspects of the planning, collecting, creating, organizing, preserving, using, evaluating and exchanging information through verbal or non-verbal communication. They study the interactions between groups, individuals, and individuals with technologies (robots).
Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
SIASocial · Investigative · Artistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.95
- I Investigative4.62
- A Artistic3.82
- C Conventional3.58
- E Enterprising3.13
- R Realistic2.18
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Communications Teachers, Postsecondary (25-1122.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (41)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- analyse the comments of selected audiences
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply scientific methods
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- communication
- communication studies
- conduct qualitative research
- conduct quantitative research
- conduct research across disciplines
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop communications strategies
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- evaluate research activities
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- media studies
- mentor individuals
- operate open source software
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- scientific literature
- scientific research methodology
- speak different languages
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- types of media
- use data processing techniques
- write scientific publications
Optional (24)
- advertising techniques
- advise on communication strategies
- advise on public relations
- anthropology
- apply blended learning
- apply teaching strategies
- conduct public surveys
- content marketing strategy
- develop media strategy
- develop scientific theories
- digital communication and collaboration
- interview focus groups
- journalism
- media law
- monitor sociological trends
- perform customer management
- perform market research
- perform public relations
- social network analysis
- sociology
- study communications channels for different employers/contractors
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- use presentation software
- write research proposals
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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