Artistic
The creators: writing, design, music, performance and film
Artistic interests are for work that makes something expressive: writing, design, music, performance, film and craft. People high on this type like variety, self-expression and work without rigid rules, and tend to find procedure and routine draining. The jobs are fewer and more competitive than for the other types, and many people with artistic interests find them inside other jobs rather than as the whole job.
The activities it describes
- Writing, composing and performing
- Designing for print, screen, spaces and products
- Drawing, photographing and making images
- Making and editing film and sound
- Dance, theatre and live events
- Crafts and making by hand
Twenty UK jobs
Each links to its National Careers Service profile, with pay, hours and routes in.
| UK job title | Mapped from the O*NET occupation |
|---|---|
| Graphic designer | Graphic Designers |
| Writer | Writers and Authors |
| Actor | Actors |
| Photographer | Photographers |
| Illustrator | Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators |
| Animator | Special Effects Artists and Animators |
| Video editor | Film and Video Editors |
| Interior designer | Interior Designers |
| Architect | Architects, Except Landscape and Naval |
| Fashion designer | Fashion Designers |
| Dancer | Dancers |
| Product designer | Commercial and Industrial Designers |
| Web designer | Web and Digital Interface Designers |
| Florist | Floral Designers |
| Make-up artist | Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance |
| TV or film producer | Producers and Directors |
| Screenwriter | Writers and Authors |
| Set designer | Set and Exhibit Designers |
| Fine artist | Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators |
| DJ | Disc Jockeys, Except Radio |
Types that combine with it
- Investigative (AI): making that needs understanding, such as architecture and games design.
- Social (AS): making for and with people, such as arts teaching and community theatre.
- Enterprising (AE): making that sells, such as advertising, marketing and producing.
Your three highest areas make your code; twenty Holland codes and UK jobs lists the commonest codes with jobs for each.
Guides that cover this
Sources and licence
Interest types from Holland's RIASEC model as used by the O*NET Interest Profiler; UK job titles mapped by hand from O*NET occupations with this type as the first letter of their interest code, and linked to the National Careers Service (Department for Education) job profiles.
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