subtitler/references/skills.md

Competences — subtitler

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/ec2c0655-5ba0-4cc8-860a-977f73b37f34).

Essential

• apply grammar and spelling rules (skill/competence)
• captioning software (knowledge)
• computer equipment (knowledge)
• condense information (skill/competence)
• consult information sources (skill/competence)
• describe scenes (skill/competence)
• grammar (knowledge)
• ICT software specifications (knowledge)
• multimedia systems (knowledge)
• spelling (knowledge)
• transcribe dialogues (skill/competence)
• translate foreign language (skill/competence)

Optional

• adapt to type of media (skill/competence)
• audiovisual products (knowledge)
• create subtitles (skill/competence)
• hearing disability (knowledge)
• linguistics (knowledge)
• make surtitles (skill/competence)
• perform video editing (skill/competence)
• speech recognition (knowledge)
• transcription methods (knowledge)
• translate soundtrack (skill/competence)
• type at speed (skill/competence)
• use word processing software (skill/competence)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 44 ads, as of 2026-07-20)

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

Hard skills

• subtitling — 52 %
• subtitle editing — 30 %
• translation — 25 %
• quality control — 25 %
• transcription — 20 %

Responsibilities

• subtitle creation — 39 %
• customer interaction — 25 %
• colleague interaction — 23 %