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Competences — fact checker

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/26ca1895-2047-4c76-a678-831c85824f61).

Essential

  • communicate by telephone (skill/competence)
  • consult information sources (skill/competence)
  • develop professional network (skill/competence)
  • perform background research on writing subject (skill/competence)
  • proofread text (skill/competence)
  • read manuscripts (skill/competence)
  • review unpublished articles (skill/competence)
  • scientific research methodology (knowledge)
  • search databases (skill/competence)
  • search engines (knowledge)

Optional

  • consult with editor (skill/competence)
  • interview people (skill/competence)
  • interview techniques (knowledge)
  • media and information literacy (knowledge)
  • press law (knowledge)
  • rewrite manuscripts (skill/competence)
  • use word processing software (skill/competence)
  • writing techniques (knowledge)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 3 ads, as of 2026-07-11)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

Hard skills

  • fact-checking — 67 %
  • editing — 67 %
  • fact checking — 33 %
  • proofreading — 33 %
  • quality assurance — 33 %
  • source verification — 33 %
  • content validation — 33 %
  • copyediting — 33 %

Methods

  • ama style — 33 %

Responsibilities

  • content accuracy assurance — 67 %
  • article fact-checking — 33 %
  • courtesy proofreading — 33 %
  • copy editing — 33 %
  • functional testing — 33 %
  • grammatical correctness check — 33 %
  • image comparison — 33 %
  • material review — 33 %
  • priority management — 33 %
  • reference validation — 33 %