Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a broadcast technician can go next

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

Broadcast technicians install, start up, maintain, monitor and repair equipment used for the transmission and reception of television and radio broadcast signals. They ensure that all materials are available in a suitable format of transmittable quality according to the transmission deadline. Broadcast technicians also maintain and repair this equipment.

Also known as radio and TV technician, broadcast technicians, broadcast engineering technician, broadcasting engineer, broadcasting technician, broadcast transmitting technician, broadcast transmitting equipment operator, broadcasting equipment operator, broadcast transmitter operator.

Technicians and associate professionals 42 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: audio-visual technician, 45%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
audio-visual technician 45% covered sound mastering engineer 38% covered telecommunications equipment … 29% covered recording studio technician 26% covered podcast producer 22% covered broadcast technician You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from broadcast 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 a broadcast technician already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A broadcast technician needs 19 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
  • select recording source working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • set up broadcast equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • broadcast equipment arts and humanities
  • monitor quality of broadcasts working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • media formats arts and humanities
  • coordinate activities in audio recording studio management skills
  • maintain audiovisual equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • manage sound quality constructing
  • audiovisual products arts and humanities
  • operate electronic measuring instruments working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a broadcast technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Broadcast 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 a broadcast 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.