From prepress technician to typesetter
13 of the 26 essential skills of a typesetter are already essential for a prepress technician — about 50% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 13
- skills carry over
- 13
- would be new
- 50%
- of the target job covered
- 26
- essential skills of a typesetter
What a typesetter does
Typesetters ensure that printed text is correctly set and visually pleasing. While typesetting was originally done manually and later employed techniques like linotype and phototypesetting, almost all typesetting is now done digitally using design programs or specialised typesetting programs.
What carries over
13 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
What would be new
13 skillsEssential for a typesetter and not for a prepress technician. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from prepress technician
2 roles- imagesetter15 skills in common
- prepress operator13 skills in common
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How far are you from being a typesetter?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.