Occupation Atlasbook editor
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4bef1707-a251-427e-9d8b-96595ec38d45
book editor
Book editors find manuscripts that can be published. They review texts from writers to evaluate the commercial potential or they ask writers to take on projects that the publishing company wishes to publish. Book editors maintain good relationships with writers.
Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
ACEArtistic · Conventional · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order
- A Artistic5.39
- C Conventional4.68
- E Enterprising4.13
- I Investigative2.90
- S Social2.56
- R Realistic1.03
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 Editors (27-3041.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (15)
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.
- assess financial viability
- attend book fairs
- consult information sources
- copyright legislation
- develop professional network
- establish collaborative relations
- implement marketing strategies
- literature
- manage budgets
- network within the writing industry
- provide support to authors
- publishing market
- read manuscripts
- select manuscripts
- suggest revision of manuscripts
Optional (17)
- analyse texts to be illustrated
- apply desktop publishing techniques
- apply grammar and spelling rules
- check correctness of information
- conserve new media
- desktop publishing
- grammar
- interpret illustration needs
- manage contracts
- perform market research
- proofread text
- rewrite manuscripts
- select illustration styles
- show diplomacy
- spelling
- use word processing software
- writing techniques
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.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 15 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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