Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a voice-over artist can go next

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

Voice-over artists perform the dialogues of animated television or movie characters. They empathise with their characters and make them come alive with their voice.

Also known as voice-over actor, voice over actress, voice artist, female voice-over artist, voice actress, voice over actor, storyteller, voice over artist, male voice-over artist, voice actor, narrator, voice-over actress.

Professionals 30 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: stand-in, 58%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
stand-in 58% covered prompter 45% covered extra 33% covered stop-motion animator 32% covered presenter 32% covered voice-over artist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from voice-over 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 voice-over 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 voice-over artist needs 16 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
  • analyse the original actor's way of speaking management skills
  • perform scenes for filming communication, collaboration and creativity
  • perform scripted dialogue communication, collaboration and creativity
  • synchronise with mouth movements working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • rehearse role communication, collaboration and creativity
  • memorise lines communication, collaboration and creativity
  • adapt to acting roles communication, collaboration and creativity
  • study relationships between characters information skills
  • acting techniques arts and humanities
  • study roles from scripts communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Voice-over 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 voice-over 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.