Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a circus artist can go next

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

Circus artists develop original performance pieces showcasing great artistic and performing skills, emotive depth and artistic proposals for the general public. Alone, or collectively, they may perform one or more traditional or original circus disciplines, which are usually based on physical capabilities such as strength, balance, agility, flexibility, ability and coordination of body parts, and combined with performance disciplines such as dance, theatre, mime etc. The physical nature of the exercises performed often includes a certain level of risk for the performer.

Also known as sword swallower, aerial straps acrobat, chinese pole acrobat, high wire artist, aerial circus performer, russian cradle artist, rope artist, dance trapezist, teeterboard acrobat, acrobat, clown, circus performer.

Professionals 39 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: stand-up comedian, 52%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
stand-up comedian 52% covered variety artist 51% covered puppeteer 48% covered singer 40% covered circus arts teacher 40% covered circus artist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from circus artist, 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 circus artist 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

A circus artist needs 31 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
  • carry out physical training communication, collaboration and creativity
  • define the visual universe of your creation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • check circus rigging before performance constructing
  • circus aesthetics arts and humanities
  • circus dramaturgy arts and humanities
  • circus vocabulary arts and humanities
  • practice circus disciplines communication, collaboration and creativity
  • renew artistic practice communication, collaboration and creativity
  • work with circus group communication, collaboration and creativity
  • balance the project requirements with health and safety concerns assisting and caring
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Circus artist 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 circus artist’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.