Occupation Atlassign language interpreter
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/9a2147aa-a72f-4f83-8653-c3f50d4e1e73
sign language interpreter
Sign language interpreters understand and convert sign language into spoken language and vice versa. They maintain the nuances and the stress of the message in the recipient language.
Job Zone
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- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
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
CASConventional · Artistic · Social — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional4.79
- A Artistic4.28
- S Social3.48
- I Investigative3.19
- E Enterprising1.90
- R Realistic1.89
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 Interpreters and Translators (27-3091.00): 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 (14)
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.
- communication related to hearing impairment
- grammar
- hearing disability
- linguistics
- preserve original text
- screen reader
- semantics
- show intercultural awareness
- sign language
- speak different languages
- translate language concepts
- translate spoken language
- translate spoken language simultaneously
- translate texts
Optional (17)
- analyse text before translation
- body language
- communicate using non-verbal language
- conduct scholarly research
- consult information sources
- court interpreting
- fingerspelling
- interpret languages in conferences
- interpret spoken language between two parties
- lipspeaking
- scientific research methodology
- support people with hearing impairment
- translate spoken language consecutively
- use word processing software
- voice interpreting
- write research proposals
- write scientific publications
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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