Where a tent installer can go next

Table 1 · Within reach

• event electrician 78% covered · difficulty 19.4
• ground rigger 67% covered · difficulty 34.9
• event scaffolder 58% covered · difficulty 44.3
• followspot operator 49% covered · difficulty 53.7

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

• high rigger 49% covered · difficulty 56.3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A tent installer needs 12 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

• assemble tent constructions constructing
• assemble performance equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
• organise resources for artistic production management skills
• store performance equipment handling and moving
• work safely with mobile electrical systems under supervision working with machinery and specialised equipment
• prevent fire in a performance environment assisting and caring
• work with respect for own safety assisting and caring
• work safely with machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
• use technical documentation information skills
• follow safety procedures when working at heights assisting and caring

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

• event scaffolder 82% covered · difficulty 19.8
• pyrotechnician 79% covered · difficulty 21.6
• stage technician 75% covered · difficulty 25.3
• instrument technician 75% covered · difficulty 25.4
• intelligent lighting engineer 73% covered · difficulty 27.6
• performance flying director 73% covered · difficulty 28.1
• performance lighting technician 73% covered · difficulty 27.6
• scenery technician 73% covered · difficulty 27.6
• audio production technician 70% covered · difficulty 29.6
• followspot operator 70% covered · difficulty 29.2

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Tent installer is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a tent installer’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.