| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Music Director |
- Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
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- Explore and develop musical ideas based on sources such as imagination or sounds in the environment.
- Coordinate and organize tours, or hire touring companies to arrange concert dates, venues, accommodations, and transportation for longer tours.
- Study scores to learn the music in detail, and to develop interpretations.
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| Sound Engineer |
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
- 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.
- Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
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- Regulate volume level and sound quality during recording sessions, using control consoles.
- Confer with producers, performers, and others to determine and achieve the desired sound for a production, such as a musical recording or a film.
- Convert video and audio recordings into digital formats for editing or archiving.
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| Musician |
- Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- 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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- Provide the musical background for live shows such as ballets, operas, musical theatre, and cabarets.
- Perform before live audiences, or in television, radio, or movie productions.
- Make or participate in recordings in music studios.
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