Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a casting director can go next

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

Casting directors select actors for all roles in a motion picture or television series. They co-operate with the producer and director to determine what they are looking for. Casting directors contact talent agents and organise interviews and auditions for the parts. They determine the fees and contracts for the actors and extras.

Also known as casting recruiter, extras casting director, film casting director, talent director, casting coordinator, movie casting director, executive of casting, talent booker, motion picture casting director, TV casting director.

Professionals 25 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: post-production supervisor, 29%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
post-production supervisor 29% covered storyboard artist 20% covered video and motion picture edit… 19% covered sound editor 19% covered script supervisor 19% covered casting director You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from casting director, 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 casting director 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 casting director needs 14 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
  • match actors to roles management skills
  • discover acting talent management skills
  • contact talent agents communication, collaboration and creativity
  • organise auditions management skills
  • carry out interviews to select artistic team members communication, collaboration and creativity
  • carry out auditions management skills
  • consult with motion picture producer communication, collaboration and creativity
  • negotiate with artists communication, collaboration and creativity
  • study relationships between characters information skills
  • read scripts information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Casting director is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 casting director’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.