Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an audio-visual technician can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an audio-visual technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Audio-visual technicians set up, operate and maintain equipment to record and edit images and sound for radio and television broadcasts, at live events and for telecommunication signals.

Also known as video technician, audio-visual assistant, audio & video operator, audio technician, audio-visual operator, audio-visual engineer, audio-video technician, audio and video operator, audio-video operator, audio-visuals technician, audiovisual assistant.

Technicians and associate professionals 37 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: sound mastering engineer, 45%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
sound mastering engineer 45% covered broadcast technician 42% covered recording studio technician 42% covered boom operator 39% covered camera operator 36% covered audio-visual technician You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from audio-visual technician, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an audio-visual technician already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An audio-visual technician needs 15 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • operate broadcast equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • operate video equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • transfer uncut audiovisual material to computer working with computers
  • support audio system installation working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • coordinate audio system programmes working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • maintain audiovisual equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • plan audiovisual recording management skills
  • audiovisual products arts and humanities
  • operate audio equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • digital media arts and humanities
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an audio-visual technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Audio-visual technician is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an audio-visual technician’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.