| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Producers and Directors |
- Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
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- Operate equipment to produce programs or broadcast live programs from remote locations.
- Attend or view productions in order to maintain knowledge of available actors.
- Negotiate contracts with artistic personnel, often in accordance with collective bargaining agreements.
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| Communications Writer |
- Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
- Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
- 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.
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- Review advertising trends, consumer surveys, and other data regarding marketing of goods and services to determine the best way to promote products.
- Vary language and tone of messages based on product and medium.
- Confer with clients, editors, publishers, or producers to discuss changes or revisions to written material.
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| Cameraman |
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
- Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
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- Instruct camera operators regarding camera setups, angles, distances, movement, and variables and cues for starting and stopping filming.
- Read charts and compute ratios to determine variables such as lighting, shutter angles, filter factors, and camera distances.
- Label and record contents of exposed film, and note details on report forms.
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