Graphic Designers: where your skills can take you
Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. May use a variety of mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects.
Most common qualification in Australia: a bachelor degree (50% of workers, 2021 Census) · Australian median pay for Graphic and Web Designers, and Illustrators: A$96,200 full-time (Jobs and Skills Australia)
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Three moves that use what a graphic designer already knows
Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.
Art Directors
🧰 Your current job already uses managing your own time, bringing people around to an idea, working out what a system needs to do and negotiating.
🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is a bachelor's degree (72%).
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Formulate design concepts and presentation approaches for visual productions and media, such as print, broadcasting, video, and film. Direct workers engaged in artwork or layout design.
Special Effects Artists and Animators
🧰 Your current job already uses bringing people around to an idea, seeing how the parts of a system affect each other, negotiating and picking up new things quickly.
🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in Australia is a bachelor degree (50%).
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Create special effects or animations using film, video, computers, or other electronic tools and media for use in products, such as computer games, movies, music videos, and commercials.
Music Directors and Composers
🧰 Your current job already uses bringing people around to an idea, managing your own time, negotiating and seeing how the parts of a system affect each other.
🎓 A degree. More study than your current job. The most common level in the US is a master's degree or higher (51%).
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Conduct, direct, plan, and lead instrumental or vocal performances by musical artists or groups, such as orchestras, bands, choirs, and glee clubs; or create original works of music.
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