Editors

$59.48K Median Salary 12K Job Openings (Annual Projection) -1.4% Job Growth

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About This Career

Plan, coordinate, or edit content of material for publication. May review proposals and drafts for possible publication. Includes technical editors.

Reported Job Titles

Acquisitions Editor, Business Editor, Editor, Features Editor, Legal Editor, News Editor, Newspaper Copy Editor, Science Editor, Sports Editor, Web Editor

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Skills You'll Need

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Technology Skills

Tools

Videoconferencing systems Teleconference equipment Notebook computers Digital cameras Flash memory storage card Video editors Digital camcorders or video cameras Special purpose telephones Desktop computers Personal computers Rulers

Abilities

Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

Knowledge

English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Communications and Media: Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Clerical: Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Skills

Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.

Technology Skills

Word processing software: Microsoft Word
Web page creation and editing software: Facebook; LinkedIn
Graphics or photo imaging software: Microsoft Visio
Desktop publishing software: Microsoft Publisher
Web platform development software: Microsoft Active Server Pages ASP
Video creation and editing software: YouTube
Office suite software: Corel WordPerfect; Microsoft Office
Presentation software: Microsoft PowerPoint
Data base user interface and query software: Data entry software; Database management software; Microsoft Access; Relational database software
Project management software: Microsoft Project
Spreadsheet software: IBM Lotus 1-2-3; Microsoft Excel
Electronic mail software: Email software; Microsoft Outlook
Document management software: Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat
Computer based training software: Blackboard Learn; Desire2Learn; Learning management system LMS; Sakai CLE
Video conferencing software: Web conferencing software
Enterprise application integration software: Extensible markup language XML
Operating system software: Apple macOS; Microsoft operating system; Microsoft Windows
Instant messaging software: Atlassian HipChat
Internet browser software: Web browser software
Internet protocol IP multimedia subsystem software: Voice over internet protocol VoiP system software
Data mining software: Google Analytics
Information retrieval or search software: DOC Cop; iParadigms Turnitin

Tools

Videoconferencing systems: Videoconferencing equipment
Teleconference equipment: Conference telephones
Notebook computers:
Digital cameras:
Flash memory storage card: Flash disks
Video editors: Digital video effects units; Linear editing systems; Non-linear editing systems; Vision mixers
Digital camcorders or video cameras: Tree top peeper and video probe systems
Special purpose telephones: Multi-line telephone systems
Desktop computers:
Personal computers:
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