Performance video designer to event electrician
A performance video designer already meets 62% of what the event electrician role asks for. The move turns on 2 required skills not yet in the profile.
33.1/ 100
1 How much of what an event electrician is expected to do is already part of a performance video 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 video 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 8 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 video 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 8 carried skills, including the 6 the event electrician role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 8 missing skills fall into 4 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
- optional, not held manage personal professional development optional
- optional, not held develop professional network 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 8 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 keep personal administration skill
6 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held manage technical resources stock optional
- optional, not held develop professional network optional
- optional, not held maintain electrical equipment optional
- optional, not held manage personal professional development optional
- optional, not held provide power distribution optional
- optional, not held set up generators optional
45 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 adobe creative suite knowledge
- 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 coach staff for running the performance skill
- not needed by the target role communicate during show skill
- not needed by the target role computer graphics knowledge
- not needed by the target role copyright legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role cue a performance 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 document your own practice skill
- not needed by the target role draw up artistic production skill
- not needed by the target role edit digital moving images skill
- not needed by the target role follow safety procedures when working at heights skill
- not needed by the target role help the programmer define an artistic vision 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 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 perform quality control of design during a run skill
- not needed by the target role present artistic design proposals skill
- not needed by the target role propose improvements to artistic production skill
- not needed by the target role provide technical documentation skill
- not needed by the target role receive appropriate permissions for use of recorded audiovisual examples skill
- not needed by the target role research new ideas skill
- not needed by the target role run a media server skill
- not needed by the target role run a projection skill
- not needed by the target role safeguard artistic quality of performance skill
- not needed by the target role set up projection equipment skill
- not needed by the target role translate artistic concepts to technical designs skill
- not needed by the target role tune a projector skill
- not needed by the target role update budget skill
- not needed by the target role update design results during rehearsals skill
5 further entries not listed here
Common questions about this move
Can a performance video designer become an event electrician?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. A performance video designer already covers 62% of what an event electrician is expected to do: 8 skills carry over, 6 of which the event electrician role treats as required.
What skills does a performance video designer need to become an event electrician?
2 required skills are missing, plus 6 optional ones. They fall into 4 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 video designer to event electrician?
Its learning distance is 33.1 out of 100, which is the moderate 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.