Editors

Also Called:

Editor,

News Editor,

Newspaper Copy Editor,

Sports Editor

What they do: Plan, coordinate, revise, or edit written material. May review proposals and drafts for possible publication.

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Arts, Entertainment, & Design

Career Cluster

What do they typically do on the job?

  • Read copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.
  • Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.
  • Read, evaluate and edit manuscripts or other materials submitted for publication, and confer with authors regarding changes in content, style or organization, or publication.

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include creating, designing, and making your own rules.

Leadership Orientation

Achievement Orientation

Intellectual Curiosity

Attention to Detail

Dependability

Integrity

Interests

Career interests describe the perspectives and interests of people who enjoy the type of work involved in this career.

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Abilities

Whether you have received formal training or not, these types of abilities are helpful in this career.

Verbal

  • Read and understand what is written

  • Communicate by writing

Ideas and Logic

  • Come up with lots of ideas

  • Group things in different ways

Skills

People who want to pursue this career have skills in these areas.

Basic Skills

  • Reading work related information

  • Writing things for co-workers or customers

Problem Solving

  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Does this sound like something you'd like to do?

1. Do some research

  • Identify how your interests, values, and strengths match this occupation
  • Talk to someone who works in this field or spend a day job shadowing
  • Use the colleges and training directory to explore programs related to this career

2. Plan your next move

  • Talk to your college and career counselor or school admissions staff
  • Visit Idaho Launch
  • Search for available Editors jobs on Idaho Works

Data for NSI career cards comes from the following: Idaho Department of Labor, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, O*NET, MyNextMove, and Career OneStop