Occupation Atlasbroadcast technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/fe4a72af-6206-4d86-90c1-b5fb4b5ba2b2
broadcast technician
Broadcast technicians install, start up, maintain, monitor and repair equipment used for the transmission and reception of television and radio broadcast signals. They ensure that all materials are available in a suitable format of transmittable quality according to the transmission deadline. Broadcast technicians also maintain and repair this equipment.
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Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
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
CRIConventional · Realistic · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional5.14
- R Realistic4.80
- I Investigative2.99
- A Artistic2.82
- E Enterprising2.50
- S Social2.13
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 Broadcast Technicians (27-4012.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (19)
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.
- audiovisual products
- broadcast equipment
- calibrate electronic instruments
- coordinate activities in audio recording studio
- electronics principles
- install low voltage wiring
- maintain audiovisual equipment
- maintain electrical equipment
- maintain electronic equipment
- manage sound quality
- media formats
- meet deadlines
- monitor quality of broadcasts
- multimedia systems
- operate audio equipment
- operate electronic measuring instruments
- select recording source
- set up broadcast equipment
- use audio reproduction software
Optional (23)
- ICT communications protocols
- adjust video transmissions
- administer ICT system
- align antennae with receiving dishes
- assemble video tape footage
- assist multimedia operator
- audio technology
- audiovisual equipment
- broadcast using Internet Protocol
- develop programming schedule
- edit recorded sound
- execute integration testing
- maintain broadcast equipment
- maintain internet protocol configuration
- operate audio-signal processors
- operate broadcast equipment
- operate remote broadcast equipment
- provide multimedia content
- record multi-track sound
- set up audiovisual peripheral equipment
- set up portable field transmission equipment
- set up sound equipment
- signal cues to announcers
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.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 19 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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