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Copywriter — 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): Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers · Public Relations Specialists · Advertising Sales Agents · Search Marketing Strategists · Editors · Advertising and Promotions Managers · Art Directors · Producers and Directors
In the official classification#
Writers and Authors
Fit with this page: broader than this page
Job Zone 4: considerable preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 27-3043.00 (Writers and Authors). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Time ManagementVery important
- Complex Problem SolvingImportant
- Judgment and Decision MakingImportant
- Social PerceptivenessImportant
- PersuasionImportant
- CoordinationImportant
- NegotiationImportant
- Service OrientationImportant
Knowledge
- English LanguageExtremely important
- Communications and MediaVery important
- AdministrativeImportant
- Sales and MarketingImportant
- Computers and ElectronicsImportant
- Customer and Personal ServiceImportant
Work activities
- Getting InformationExtremely important
- Thinking CreativelyExtremely important
- Working with ComputersVery important
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing WorkVery important
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for OthersVery important
- Updating and Using Relevant KnowledgeVery important
Abilities
- Written ExpressionExtremely important
- Written ComprehensionVery important
- Oral ComprehensionVery important
- Oral ExpressionVery important
- Fluency of IdeasVery important
- OriginalityVery important
Essential skills
- WritingExtremely important
- Reading ComprehensionVery important
- Active ListeningVery important
- SpeakingVery important
- Critical ThinkingVery important
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 5 task judgements are for: 1 backed by a verified event, 4 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
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- 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.
- 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.