Occupation Atlasmusic producer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/5ff7a990-a306-40c2-9224-b2bf7f15b2f9
music producer
Music producers are responsible for acquiring music to be published. They listen to demos of songs and determine whether they are good enough to be published. Music producers oversee the production of records. They manage the technical aspects of recording and editing.
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Job Zone
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- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
AESArtistic · Enterprising · Social — the three strongest interests, in order
- A Artistic7.00
- E Enterprising4.82
- S Social3.04
- C Conventional2.63
- I Investigative2.28
- R Realistic2.07
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Music Directors and Composers (27-2041.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (15)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- assess financial viability
- coordinate music components of the work
- copyright legislation
- develop professional network
- financial jurisdiction
- identify music with commercial potential
- implement strategic planning
- liaise with financiers
- manage budgets
- manage staff
- musical genres
- musical instruments
- musical theory
- negotiate with artists
- perform market research
Optional (22)
- accounting techniques
- assess sound quality
- audio editing software
- audiovisual equipment
- audiovisual products
- convert different audiovisual formats
- coordinate activities in audio recording studio
- edit recorded sound
- hire background musicians
- implement marketing strategies
- manage sound quality
- marketing principles
- musical notation
- operate an audio mixing console
- plan marketing strategy
- promote music
- record multi-track sound
- sales activities
- supervise sales activities
- supervise sound production
- types of audiovisual formats
- use audio reproduction software
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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