Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a stage director can go next

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

Stage directors oversee and orchestrate the mounting of a performance production by unifying various endeavours and aspects of a theatrical production. They ensure the quality and completeness of the theatrical production and lead the members of the creative team into realising their artistic vision for it.

Professionals 25 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: assistant stage director, 31%

assistant stage director 31% covered technical director 25% covered art director 25% covered video and motion picture dire… 20% covered stage manager 17% covered stage director You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from stage director. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a stage director already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

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stage director is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a stage director already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.