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Career Guidance Skills communication, collaboration and creativity S1.7 - obtaining information verbally S1.7.2 - engaging with others to identify needs Interpret illustration needs
Description
Communicate with clients, editors and authors in order to interpret and fully understand their professional needs.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 5 occupations
- Optional in 2 occupations
- Total: 7 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- IllustratorIllustrators provide a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. Illustrations can help clarify difficult concepts or objects that are h…
- ImagesetterImagesetters process images and graphic templates by using phototypesetting machines. They optimise the templates for the best possible result by determining the right arrangement …
- TypesetterTypesetters ensure that printed text is correctly set and visually pleasing. While typesetting was originally done manually and later employed techniques like linotype and phototyp…
- Prepress operatorPrepress operators create a prepress proof, or sample of what the finished product will look like. In many printing contracts, the client at this stage decides whether the print…
- CartoonistA Cartoonist is a visual artist who creates humorous, satirical, or thought-provoking illustrations, often accompanied by captions or dialogue. These drawings appear in newspapers,…
Optional for
- Book editorBook 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…
- Prepress technicianPrepress technicians prepare printing processes by formatting, setting and composing text and graphics into a suitable form. This includes the capture of text and image and process…
Related skills
- Perform image editing
- Apply desktop publishing techniques
- Graphic design
- Follow a brief
- Adobe Photoshop
- Graphics editor software
- Printing materials
- Quality standards
- Produce prepress proof
- Prepress processes
- Synfig
- Adobe Illustrator
Last updated on February 18, 2026
