Audio-Visual & Multimedia Collections Specialists
Also called:
Audio Visual Technician, Audio Visual Specialist, Media Specialist, Media Technician
What they do:
Prepare, plan, and operate multimedia teaching aids for use in education. May record, catalogue, and file materials.
On the job, you would:
- Set up, adjust, and operate audiovisual equipment such as cameras, film and slide projectors, and recording equipment, for meetings, events, classes, seminars and video conferences.
- Maintain hardware and software, including computers, scanners, color copiers, and color laser printers.
- Install audiovisual equipment.
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
Business
- customer service
- administrative services
Communications
- multimedia
- telecommunications
Arts and Humanities
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Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
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Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- order or arrange things
Hand and Finger Use
- put together small parts with your fingers
- keep your arm or hand steady
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People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Cooperation
- Stress Tolerance
- Persistence
- Adaptability/Flexibility
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You might use software like this on the job:
Spreadsheet software
Electronic mail software
Desktop publishing software
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master's degree or bachelor's degree usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are likely in the future.
$43,350
per year, on average
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