Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

lexicographertosubtitler

A lexicographer already meets 35% of what the subtitler role asks for. The move turns on 7 required skills not yet in the profile.

From lexicographer
35%
Overlap1
To subtitler
7 Skills carried over
7 Required, not held
63.3 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

35%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

63.3/ 100

1 Share of the subtitler role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the lexicographer profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A subtitler role treats 5 of its required skills as things a lexicographer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • apply grammar and spelling rules
  • consult information sources
  • grammar
  • spelling
  • translate foreign language

What stands in the way is 7 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 7 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A subtitler role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a lexicographer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held translate foreign language communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held linguistics arts and humanities
  • already held spelling arts and humanities
  • already held use word processing software working with computers
  • already held consult information sources information skills
  • already held grammar arts and humanities

All 7 carried skills, including the 5 the subtitler role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 17 missing skills fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 information and communication technologies (icts) 3 required
  • required, not held captioning software required
  • required, not held ICT software specifications required
  • required, not held computer equipment required
02 communication, collaboration and creativity 2 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held condense information required
  • required, not held describe scenes required
  • optional, not held translate soundtrack optional
  • optional, not held adapt to type of media optional
  • optional, not held create subtitles optional
  • optional, not held make surtitles optional
03 arts and humanities 1 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held multimedia systems required
  • optional, not held audiovisual products optional
  • optional, not held speech recognition optional
  • optional, not held transcription methods optional
04 information skills 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held transcribe dialogues required
  • optional, not held type at speed optional
05 health and welfare 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held hearing disability optional
06 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held perform video editing optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a subtitler role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 7 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held apply grammar and spelling rules skill
  • already held consult information sources skill
  • already held grammar knowledge
  • already held spelling knowledge
  • already held translate foreign language skill
  • already held linguistics knowledge
  • already held use word processing software skill
10 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held translate soundtrack optional
  • optional, not held adapt to type of media optional
  • optional, not held audiovisual products optional
  • optional, not held create subtitles optional
  • optional, not held make surtitles optional
  • optional, not held perform video editing optional
  • optional, not held speech recognition optional
  • optional, not held type at speed optional
  • optional, not held hearing disability optional
  • optional, not held transcription methods optional
21 held skills the subtitler role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role consult with editor skill
  • not needed by the target role copyright legislation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role create definitions skill
  • not needed by the target role create semantic trees skill
  • not needed by the target role develop technical glossaries skill
  • not needed by the target role do historical research skill
  • not needed by the target role edit dictionary entries skill
  • not needed by the target role follow work schedule skill
  • not needed by the target role identify new words skill
  • not needed by the target role manage budgets skill
  • not needed by the target role practical lexicography knowledge
  • not needed by the target role project management principles knowledge
  • not needed by the target role scientific research methodology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role search databases skill
  • not needed by the target role search engines knowledge
  • not needed by the target role supervise staff skill
  • not needed by the target role supervise work skill
  • not needed by the target role theoretical lexicography knowledge
  • not needed by the target role translate language concepts skill
  • not needed by the target role typology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role use dictionaries skill
8 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held captioning software required
  • required, not held ICT software specifications required
  • required, not held computer equipment required
  • required, not held multimedia systems required
  • optional, not held audiovisual products optional
  • optional, not held speech recognition optional
  • optional, not held hearing disability optional
  • optional, not held transcription methods optional
Index

Other moves recorded from lexicographer

Full index of moves from lexicographer

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.