List of Job Titles - Authors and Writers (NOC5121)

Working in Canada provides detailed information based on the 2006 version of the National Occupational Classification (NOC). The NOC is Canada's national system to classify and describe all occupations across the country.

In this classification, each job title (real-world job titles that people use every day) belongs to a grouping of different titles. This Web site uses these groupings as the basis to attach different information from its different partners (Statistics Canada, Service Canada, etc.).

The following list represents the list of common job titles that belong to the grouping: Authors and Writers (NOC 5121)

• advertising copywriter
• advertising writer
• ad writer
• author
• biographer
• copywriter
• crossword puzzle maker
• designer and script writer
• dialogue writer
• dubbing dialogue writer
• essayist
• feature writer
• fiction writer
• game, CD-ROM or Web critic
• ghost writer
• handbook writer
• help file developer
• humorist-author
• interactive media writer
• lexicographer
• literary writer
• manual writer
• multimedia author
• multimedia script writer
• multimedia writer
• new media writer
• novelist
• on-line reference developer
• playwright
• poet
• programmed-instruction writer
• publicity writer
• radio writer
• rewriter
• scientific writer
• screen writer
• script and dialogue writer
• script writer
• self-instruction manual writer
• serial story writer
• serial writer
• short story writer
• specifications writer
• specifications writer (except construction)
• speech writer
• sports writer - novels and books
• standards writer
• storyboarder
• support materials writer
• technical writer
• technical writer - aeronautics
• technical writer - chemical processing
• technical writer - electronics equipment
• technical writer - pharmaceutical industry
• teleplay writer, screenwriter
• television writer
• writer
• writer, advertising
• writer, fiction
• writer, handbooks
• writer, interactive media
• writer, multimedia
• writer, new media
• writer, self-instruction manuals
• writer, short stories
• writer, speeches