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Editors

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  • Job description
  • Advancement and mobility
  • Hourly wage
  • Job prospects for 2021-2025
  • Sectors of activity
  • Training and requirements
  • Main skills and characteristics
  • Personality profiles (RIASEC)
  • Additional information

Job description

These individuals evaluate and revise texts to be published or disseminated. They are self-employed or work for:

  • The government
  • Publishing houses
  • Magazines
  • Journals
  • Newspapers
  • Radio and television stations
  • Companies

Environment

  • Controlled ambient temperature

Main tasks

  • Determine the relevance of publishing, disseminating, or transmitting various texts.
  • Make or recommend changes to the content, style, and structure of texts.
  • Read and review content for spelling, grammar, and syntax errors.
  • Shorten or lengthen text to fit space or time constraints.
  • Consult with authors and editors about revisions that are required.
  • Plan and implement the layout of texts.
  • Coordinate staff activities and ensure deadlines are met.
  • Plan coverage of upcoming events and assign tasks.
  • Write texts (introductions, advertising documents, bibliographical references, etc.).
  • Negotiate, if necessary, copyrights with editors and ensure the remuneration of freelancers.

Advancement and mobility

  • Experience leads to supervisory and management positions.
  • These individuals may specialize in a particular field (news, sports, big stories, etc.) or in a particular genre (books, magazines, newspapers, etc.).

Hourly wage

Not available.

Job prospects for 2021-2025

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Job prospects for 2021-2025

Job prospects

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Good

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available

Total jobs for 2020

All of Québec

4,000

All of Québec

na

Gender distribution

All of Québec

Not available.
68.1% Female
31.9% Male

Not available.
  • 68.1% Female
  • 31.9% Male

Job types

All of Québec

Not available.
Full time
Part time

Not available.
  • Full time
  • Part time

Yearly wage on 2015

All of Québec

$57,000

All of Québec

Other characteristics

All of Québec

  • Non traditional for men
  • None

All of Québec

  • Non traditional for men
  • None

Sectors of activity

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Information and Cultural Industries
    NAICS 51
    44% of jobs
  2. Public Administration
    NAICS 91
    13% of jobs
  3. Advertising, Public Relations and Related Services and Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Services
    NAICS 5418, 5419
    11% of jobs
  4. Business, building and other support services
    NAICS 55, 56
    7% of jobs
  5. Other Services (except Public Administration)
    NAICS 81
    3% of jobs
  6. Others
    22% of jobs

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Information and Cultural Industries
    NAICS 51
    44% of jobs
  2. Public Administration
    NAICS 91
    13% of jobs
  3. Advertising, Public Relations and Related Services and Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Services
    NAICS 5418, 5419
    11% of jobs
  4. Business, building and other support services
    NAICS 55, 56
    7% of jobs
  5. Other Services (except Public Administration)
    NAICS 81
    3% of jobs
  6. Others
    22% of jobs

Training and requirements

Formation

Most training programs are offered in French only.

University

Communications and journalism
Bachelor’s degree

Placement rate: 75.8%

16.2% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
Master’s degree

Placement rate: 69.4%

21% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
  • Concordia University
  • Université de Montréal
  • Université de Sherbrooke
  • Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
  • Université du Québec en Outaouais
  • Université du Québec à Montréal
  • Université Laval
  • McGill University
  • TÉLUQ
English literature or English, language of instruction
Master’s degree

Placement rate: 56.5%

21.7% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
  • Concordia University
  • Université de Montréal
  • Université de Sherbrooke
  • Université Laval
  • McGill University
French literature or French, language of instruction
Bachelor’s degree

Placement rate: 40.8%

53.4% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
Master’s degree

Placement rate: 63.9%

26.4% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
  • Bishop's University
  • Université de Montréal
  • Université de Sherbrooke
  • Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
  • Université du Québec à Montréal
  • Université du Québec à Rimouski
  • Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
  • Université Laval
Linguistics
Bachelor’s degree

Placement rate: 38.8%

57.6% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
Master’s degree

Placement rate: 83.3%

More on graduates’ employment situation
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
  • Concordia University
  • Université de Montréal
  • Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
  • Université du Québec en Outaouais
  • Université du Québec à Montréal
  • Université Laval
  • McGill University
Translation
Bachelor’s degree

Placement rate: 80.1%

10.2% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
Master’s degree

Placement rate: 82.9%

11.4% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
  • Concordia University
  • Université de Montréal
  • Université de Sherbrooke
  • Université du Québec en Outaouais
  • Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
  • Université Laval
  • McGill University

Sometimes required

  • Experience in writing, editing, or journalism is usually required.
  • Membership in the Editors Association of Canada may be required.
  • Specialized training in a particular subject may be required.

Main skills and characteristics

Skills

  • Reading comprehension
  • Data collection
  • Written expression
  • Active listening
  • Critical thought
  • Information processing
  • Oral expression
  • Time management
  • Quality control analysis
  • System analysis
  • Active learning
  • Judgment and decision-making
  • Social perception
  • Solving complex problems
  • Coordination
  • Teaching
  • Result evaluation
  • Human resource management
  • Negotiation
  • Persuasion
More Less skills

Abilities

  • Written comprehension
  • Written expression
  • Oral comprehension
  • Verbal skills
  • Speech clarity
  • Idea generation
  • Speech recognition
  • Near vision
  • Classification
  • Originality
  • Deductive reasoning
  • Information organization
  • Inductive reasoning
  • Awareness of issues
  • Processing flexibility
  • Selective attention
More Less abilities

Knowledge and attributes

  • Capacity to work under pressure
  • Diplomacy
  • Knowledge of the French language
  • Sense of responsibility
  • Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
  • Capacity to work in a team
  • Rigour
  • Sense of initiative
  • Vitality
  • Knowledge of communication and media

Interests

  • Draft, communicate, and inform
  • Work in the arts, culture, music, or leisure
  • Work in an office
  • Work in computer science or information and communication technologies (ICT)
  • Carry out research

Personality profiles (RIASEC)

Artistic
People with this profile prefer to express their emotions and thoughts through various art forms. They like to use their imagination.
Investigative
People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Social
People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
Additional information