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Career Details :: Talent Directors

Description

Audition and interview performers to select most appropriate talent for parts in stage, television, radio, or motion picture productions.

Experience

Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.

Education

Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.

Training

Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.

Tasks

• Auditions and interviews performers to identify most suitable talent for broadcasting, stage, or musical production.
• Maintains talent file, including information about personalities, such as specialties, past performances, and availability.
• Directs recording sessions for musical artists.
• Promotes record sales by personal appearances and contacts with broadcasting personalities.
• Negotiates contract agreements with performers.
• Selects performer or submits list of suitable performers to producer or director for final selection.
• Arranges for screen tests or auditions for new performers.

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Important Abilities

• Oral Expression
• Memorization
• Speech Clarity
• Hearing Sensitivity
• Near Vision

General Work Activities

• Communicating With Persons Outside Organization
• Judging Qualities of Things, Service, People
• Establishing & Maintaining Relationships
• Resolving Conflict, Negotiating With Others
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events

Important Skills

• Speaking
  
• Negotiation
  
• Active Listening
  
• Reading Comprehension
  
• Social Perceptiveness
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Objective or Subjective Information
• Indoors
• Deal With External Customers
• Importance of Being Exact or Accurate

Related Majors

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Acting	[ add ]
Acting/Directing	[ add ]
Children's Theatre	[ add ]
Communication Studies/Theatre	[ add ]
Communication/Theatre	[ add ]
Communication/Theatre Arts	[ add ]
Communications/Theatre	[ add ]
Dance/Theatre	[ add ]
Directing	[ add ]
Drama	[ add ]
Drama/Dance	[ add ]
Drama/Design	[ add ]
Drama/Production	[ add ]
Drama/Speech Communication	[ add ]
Drama/Theatre Arts	[ add ]
Drama/Theatre/Dance	[ add ]
Dramatic Arts	[ add ]
Dramatic Arts/Drama	[ add ]
Dramatic Arts/Theatre	[ add ]
Dramatic Literature/Theatre/History/Cinema	[ add ]
Dramatics/Theatre Arts	[ add ]
Educational Theatre	[ add ]
English Dramatic Literature/Theatre	[ add ]
English/Drama/Speech	[ add ]
Film/Drama	[ add ]
Historical Performance	[ add ]
Media Arts/Theatre	[ add ]
Music Theatre	[ add ]
Music/Theatre	[ add ]
Music/Theatre Arts	[ add ]
Musical Theatre	[ add ]
Performance Art Theatre	[ add ]
Performing Arts/Musical Theatre Performance	[ add ]
Speech Communication/Dramatic Arts	[ add ]
Speech Communication/Theatre	[ add ]
Speech Communication/Theatre Arts	[ add ]
Speech/Drama	[ add ]
Speech/Dramatic Art	[ add ]
Speech/Dramatic Arts	[ add ]
Speech/Theatre	[ add ]
Theatre	[ add ]
Theatre Arts	[ add ]
Theatre Arts Management	[ add ]
Theatre Arts/Dance	[ add ]
Theatre Arts/Drama	[ add ]
Theatre Arts/English	[ add ]
Theatre Arts/Speech	[ add ]
Theatre Arts/Technical Theatre	[ add ]
Theatre Arts/Theory/Performance	[ add ]
Theatre for Youth	[ add ]
Theatre Management	[ add ]
Theatre Performance	[ add ]
Theatre Production	[ add ]
Theatre Studies	[ add ]
Theatre Technology	[ add ]
Theatre/Acting	[ add ]
Theatre/Communication	[ add ]
Theatre/Communication Arts	[ add ]
Theatre/Dance	[ add ]
Theatre/Dance/Film	[ add ]
Theatre/Design	[ add ]
Theatre/Drama	[ add ]
Theatre/Dramatics	[ add ]
Theatre/English	[ add ]
Theatre/Film	[ add ]
Theatre/Fine Arts	[ add ]
Theatre/Music	[ add ]
Theatre/Speech	[ add ]
Theatre/Stage Management	[ add ]

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