Content creator — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Producers and Directors · Desktop Publishers · Media Technical Directors/Managers · Audio and Video Technicians · Sound Engineering Technicians · Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film · Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers · Public Relations Specialists
In the official classification#
Film and Video Editors
Fit with this page: covers part of this page
Job Zone 4: considerable preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗Writers and Authors
Fit with this page: covers part of this page
Job Zone 4: considerable preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys
Fit with this page: covers part of this page
Job Zone 4: considerable preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗In Europe, internationally and in Singapore
Journalists
Fit with this page: closest match, not the same job
Author and related writer n.e.c.
Fit with this page: closest match, not the same job
What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 27-4032.00 (Film and Video Editors). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Complex Problem SolvingImportant
- Judgment and Decision MakingImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
- CoordinationImportant
- Social PerceptivenessImportant
- PersuasionImportant
- Systems AnalysisImportant
- Systems EvaluationImportant
Knowledge
- Communications and MediaExtremely important
- English LanguageExtremely important
- Computers and ElectronicsExtremely important
- TelecommunicationsVery important
- Fine ArtsVery important
- Production and ProcessingVery important
Work activities
- Working with ComputersExtremely important
- Thinking CreativelyExtremely important
- Getting InformationExtremely important
- Updating and Using Relevant KnowledgeVery important
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and EventsVery important
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or SubordinatesVery important
Abilities
- Oral ComprehensionVery important
- Near VisionVery important
- Oral ExpressionVery important
- Information OrderingVery important
- Written ComprehensionVery important
- Fluency of IdeasVery important
Essential skills
- Active ListeningVery important
- Critical ThinkingVery important
- Reading ComprehensionImportant
- SpeakingImportant
- Active LearningImportant
Each task in O*NET's terms#
O*NET describes work as detailed activities. Each of this page's 7 tasks is matched only against the activities O*NET lists for this occupation, with a stated fit; 5 match at least one. 2 are not in O*NET's list for this occupation. The alignment and its fit are this site's judgement, made task by task by its AI agent (Claude) on 2026-09-26; O*NET does not align tasks like ours. The activity names are O*NET's, the translations ours.
- Finding the idea the audience will watchDetermine presentation subjects or content.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Thinking Creatively · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Journalist · Editor and proofreader · Video editor · Technical writerMonitor current trends.covers part of this task · Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings · O*NET 31.0
- Writing the scriptWrite material for artistic or entertainment purposes.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Documenting/Recording Information · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Writer and author
- Being the face and the voicePerform for recordings.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Performing for or Working Directly with the Public · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Musician and composerInform viewers, listeners, or audiences.covers part of this task · Communicating with People Outside the Organization · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Voice actor
- Editing, thumbnails and captionsEdit audio or video recordings.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Making Decisions and Solving Problems · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Video editorCreate computer-generated graphics or animation.covers part of this task · Thinking Creatively · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Graphic designer · Animator and VFX artist · Video editor
- Dubbing and translating for other languagesNone of the activities O*NET lists for this occupation covers this task.
- The communityNone of the activities O*NET lists for this occupation covers this task.
- Sponsors, disclosure and platform rulesPromote products, activities, or organizations.covers part of this task · Selling or Influencing Others · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Voice actorObtain copyrights or other legal permissions.covers part of this task · Getting Information · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Photographer · Writer and author
Tasks O*NET proposes to add#
O*NET's analysts propose new or reworded task statements for future data collection, drawing on what surveyed workers write in, research into new technologies and professional associations. They are candidates, not yet part of the rated task list, and they say nothing about whether automation is involved. This site does not fold them into its own task judgements.
- Write scripts.New task · 2020-08 · reported by surveyed workers · O*NET 31.0
Rules that bind this work#
Laws, regulations, court rules, regulators' guidance and collective agreements that this page's verified records read — each with the verb that matters and whom it binds. Read from each record by this site's AI agent (Claude) on 2026-09-26. Official names stay in their own language.
16 CFR Part 255
§ 255.5 · must · binds a person (licensed or not) · requires a person to do, decide or answer for it → Sponsors, disclosure and platform rules
2023-07-26 · the record →Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act)
Article 50(4) · must · binds an organisation (employer, deployer, operator) → Being the face and the voice
2024-06-13 · the record →16 CFR Part 465
§ 465.8(b) · must not · binds a person (licensed or not) → The community
2024-08-22 · the record →人工智能生成合成内容标识办法
第十条 (Article 10) · must · binds a person (licensed or not) → Being the face and the voice
2025-03-14 · the record →Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 7 task judgements are for: 6 backed by a verified event, 1 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Each block says where it comes from: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, the European ESCO classification and its official crosswalk to O*NET, the ILO's ISCO-08, Singapore's SSOC 2024, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- The ESCO and ISCO-08 fits are derived mechanically from the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk; where we override it, we say why in our data (for example, the crosswalk pairs radiologists with radiographers, which is a different job). The SSOC 2024 fit is our reading of the Singapore Department of Statistics' own titles and definitions. Official names are shown as their publishers write them; we do not translate them.
- Each task is matched only against the detailed work activities O*NET lists for the codes this page maps to. Where nothing fits, the page says why instead of forcing a match: work O*NET does not describe yet (used only for tasks we judge to be emerging), or nothing in O*NET's list for this occupation. An alignment never changes a task's direction, its basis or the impact index.
- Rules are read only from this site's verified records. A rule's official name must appear word for word in a record that reads it, so no name is made up; a policy mandate is read only as 'must', 'must not' or 'funds', because 'should' and 'in principle' are not a mandate. Reading a rule never changes a task's direction, its basis or the impact index.
- How these pieces fit together — objects, links and the actions that change them — is drawn as one diagram: The VOLO ontology
- ESCO (European Commission), occupation records from the ESCO API; CC BY 4.0. ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, ESCO Secretariat with the U.S. Department of Labor/ETA, version 1 (Sep 2022), O*NET-SOC 2019 ↔ ESCO v1.1.0; CC BY 4.0. Singapore Department of Statistics, Singapore Standard Occupational Classification 2024 and its correspondence with ISCO-08.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.