Occupation Atlasforeign correspondent
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4cc98057-8ed5-4b45-855b-7a67bc2e5bae
foreign correspondent
Foreign correspondents research and write news stories of international importance for newspapers, journals, magazines, radio, television and other media. They are stationed in a foreign country.
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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
AIEArtistic · Investigative · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order
- A Artistic5.09
- I Investigative4.16
- E Enterprising3.95
- C Conventional3.64
- S Social2.80
- R Realistic1.47
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 News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists (27-3023.00): 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 (25)
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.
- apply grammar and spelling rules
- build contacts to maintain news flow
- consult information sources
- copyright legislation
- develop professional network
- editorial standards
- evaluate writings in response to feedback
- follow ethical code of conduct of journalists
- follow the news
- grammar
- interview people
- interview techniques
- observe new developments in foreign countries
- participate in editorial meetings
- provide context to news stories
- rhetoric
- show intercultural awareness
- speak different languages
- spelling
- stay up to date with social media
- study cultures
- study topics
- use specific writing techniques
- write to a deadline
- writing techniques
Optional (23)
- ICT software specifications
- adapt to changing situations
- adapt to type of media
- apply desktop publishing techniques
- check correctness of information
- communicate by telephone
- create online news content
- desktop publishing
- do historical research
- document interviews
- follow directions of on-site director
- manage personal finances
- manage writing administration
- multimedia systems
- present during live broadcasts
- press law
- promote one's writings
- pronunciation techniques
- proofread text
- provide written content
- rewrite articles
- write captions
- write headlines
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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