Occupation Atlascreative director
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/d2db926b-8b14-4686-9c98-fb0dc3a38cbb
creative director
Creative directors manage the team that is responsible for the creation of advertisements and commercials. They oversee the whole creation process. Creative directors pitch the designs of their team to the client.
Compare with another occupationCompare with advertising copywriter
Job Zone
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- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
AECArtistic · Enterprising · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- A Artistic7.00
- E Enterprising5.24
- C Conventional3.60
- R Realistic2.95
- S Social2.88
- I Investigative2.69
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Art Directors (27-1011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (18)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- advertising techniques
- assess each stage of the creative process
- brainstorm ideas
- coordinate advertising campaigns
- copyright legislation
- define creative components
- desktop publishing
- examine advertisement layout
- give live presentation
- graphic design
- identify customer's needs
- manage budgets
- manage creative department
- manage staff
- manage workflow processes
- meet expectations of target audience
- provide input to collaborators to guide their work
- select artwork developed by staff members
Optional (21)
- CAD software
- adobe creative suite
- analyse consumer buying trends
- analyse cultural trends
- apply desktop publishing techniques
- approve advertising campaign
- create advertisements
- create media plan
- design management
- develop media strategy
- evaluate advertising campaign
- manage the handling of promotional materials
- media planning
- perform market research
- perform media outlets research
- perform project management
- receive actors' resumes
- recruit employees
- train employees
- types of media
- use CAD software
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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