Performance lighting designer to event electrician
A performance lighting designer already meets 69% of what the event electrician role asks for. The move turns on 2 required skills not yet in the profile.
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1 How much of what an event electrician is expected to do is already part of a performance lighting designer’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the event electrician role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
An event electrician role treats 6 of its required skills as things a performance lighting designer already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- ensure safety of mobile electrical systems
- organise resources for artistic production
- use personal protection equipment
- use technical documentation
- work ergonomically
- work with respect for own safety
What stands in the way is 2 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 10 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. An event electrician role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a performance lighting designer background worth leading with.
- already held assess power needs management skills
- already held organise resources for artistic production management skills
- already held ensure safety of mobile electrical systems assisting and caring
- already held work with respect for own safety assisting and caring
- already held use technical documentation information skills
- already held use personal protection equipment assisting and caring
All 10 carried skills, including the 6 the event electrician role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 6 missing skills fall into 3 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn assemble performance equipment required
- optional, not held maintain electrical equipment optional
- optional, not held provide power distribution optional
- optional, not held set up generators optional
- still to learn store performance equipment required
- optional, not held manage technical resources stock optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 2 entries an event electrician role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 10 skills that carry over
- already held ensure safety of mobile electrical systems skill
- already held organise resources for artistic production skill
- already held use personal protection equipment skill
- already held use technical documentation skill
- already held work ergonomically skill
- already held work with respect for own safety skill
- already held assess power needs skill
- already held develop professional network skill
- already held keep personal administration skill
- already held manage personal professional development skill
4 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held manage technical resources stock optional
- optional, not held maintain electrical equipment optional
- optional, not held provide power distribution optional
- optional, not held set up generators optional
61 held skills the event electrician role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role adapt artistic plan to location skill
- not needed by the target role adapt existing designs to changed circumstances skill
- not needed by the target role adapt to artists' creative demands skill
- not needed by the target role analyse a script skill
- not needed by the target role analyse music score skill
- not needed by the target role analyse the artistic concept based on stage actions skill
- not needed by the target role analyse the need for technical resources skill
- not needed by the target role analyse the scenography skill
- not needed by the target role artificial lighting systems knowledge
- not needed by the target role attend rehearsals skill
- not needed by the target role calculate design costs skill
- not needed by the target role coach staff for running the performance skill
- not needed by the target role communicate during show skill
- not needed by the target role conduct costume research skill
- not needed by the target role contextualise artistic work skill
- not needed by the target role copyright legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role define artistic approach skill
- not needed by the target role design an artificial lighting system skill
- not needed by the target role develop design concept skill
- not needed by the target role develop design ideas cooperatively skill
- not needed by the target role develop drama production process skill
- not needed by the target role document your own practice skill
- not needed by the target role draw up artistic production skill
- not needed by the target role draw up lighting plan skill
- not needed by the target role focus lighting equipment skill
- not needed by the target role follow safety procedures when working at heights skill
- not needed by the target role keep up with trends skill
- not needed by the target role labour legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role lead a team skill
- not needed by the target role light a show skill
- not needed by the target role meet deadlines skill
- not needed by the target role monitor developments in technology used for design skill
- not needed by the target role monitor sociological trends skill
- not needed by the target role operate a lighting console skill
- not needed by the target role perform quality control of design during a run skill
- not needed by the target role plan act lighting skill
- not needed by the target role plot lighting states skill
- not needed by the target role plot lighting states with automated lights skill
- not needed by the target role present artistic design proposals skill
- not needed by the target role prevent fire in a performance environment skill
21 further entries not listed here
Other moves recorded from performance lighting designer
Common questions about this move
Can a performance lighting designer become an event electrician?
Yes, and it is an adjacent move. A performance lighting designer already covers 69% of what an event electrician is expected to do: 10 skills carry over, 6 of which the event electrician role treats as required.
What skills does a performance lighting designer need to become an event electrician?
2 required skills are missing, plus 4 optional ones. They fall into 3 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by working with machinery and specialised equipment. The single most important is assemble performance equipment.
How hard is the move from performance lighting designer to event electrician?
Its learning distance is 28 out of 100, which is the adjacent band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.