Career Overlap Occupation record
RecordJob

Where a prompter can go next

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

Prompters prompt or cue performers when they forget their lines or neglect to move to the right position on the stage.

Also known as prompt, theatre prompter, souffleur, opera prompter, theater prompter.

Technicians and associate professionals 32 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: voice-over artist, 48%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
voice-over artist 48% covered actor/actress 44% covered stand-up comedian 43% covered puppeteer 42% covered stand-in 38% covered prompter You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from prompter, 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 prompter 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 prompter needs 17 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
  • rehearse with fellow actors communication, collaboration and creativity
  • rehearse role communication, collaboration and creativity
  • analyse theatre texts communication, collaboration and creativity
  • memorise script communication, collaboration and creativity
  • interpret performance concepts in the creative process communication, collaboration and creativity
  • memorise lines communication, collaboration and creativity
  • adapt to acting roles communication, collaboration and creativity
  • theatre techniques arts and humanities
  • attend read-through communication, collaboration and creativity
  • use declaiming techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Prompter 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 prompter’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.