Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a prop master/prop mistress can go next

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

Prop masters/mistresses setup, prepare, check and maintain objects used on stage by actors or other small movable objects called props. They cooperate with road crew to unload, set up and prepare the props. During a performance they position props, hand them over or take them back from the actors.

Also known as prop master, prop coordinator, property coordinator, prop master/mistress assistant, prop technician, prop supervisor, property mistress, prop mistress, property master, prop assistant, property technician.

Technicians and associate professionals 61 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: event electrician, 75%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
event electrician 75% covered scenery technician 74% covered stagehand 72% covered followspot operator 67% covered dresser 67% covered prop master/prop mistress You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from prop master/prop mistress, 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 prop master/prop mistress already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A prop master/prop mistress needs 27 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
  • manage stage effects constructing
  • prepare stage effects communication, collaboration and creativity
  • build devices into props handling and moving
  • develop prop effects communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain props communication, collaboration and creativity
  • define prop building methods management skills
  • hand props to actors assisting and caring
  • preset props handling and moving
  • change over props handling and moving
  • adapt props communication, collaboration and creativity
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Prop master/prop mistress is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a prop master/prop mistress’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.