| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Radio Operator |
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
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- Determine and obtain bearings of sources from which signals originate, using direction-finding procedures and equipment.
- Send, receive, and interpret coded messages.
- Turn controls or throw switches in order to activate power, adjust voice volume and modulation, and set transmitters on specified frequencies.
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| Audio Technician |
- Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
- Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
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- Mix and regulate sound inputs and feeds, or coordinate audio feeds with television pictures.
- Analyze and maintain data logs for audiovisual activities.
- Perform narration of productions, or present announcements.
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| Sound Engineer |
- Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
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- Synchronize and equalize prerecorded dialogue, music, and sound effects with visual action of motion pictures or television productions, using control consoles.
- Separate instruments, vocals, and other sounds, and combine sounds later during the mixing or postproduction stage.
- Regulate volume level and sound quality during recording sessions, using control consoles.
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