Performance Scout Overview

Required Education and Training To Become a Performance Scout

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Performance Scout Job Description:
  • Audition and interview performers to select most appropriate talent for parts in stage, television, radio, or motion picture productions.

Required Skills and Competencies To Become a Performance Scout

Job Duties for Performance Scouts

  • Audition and interview performers to match their attributes to specific roles or to increase the pool of available acting talent.

  • Prepare actors for auditions by providing scripts and information about roles and casting requirements.

  • Select performers for roles or submit lists of suitable performers to producers or directors for final selection.

Technologies and Skills Used by Performance Scouts

Data base user interface and query software

  • Amazon Web Services AWS software
  • Database software

Operating system software

  • Linux
  • UNIX

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Basic Skills

  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • Talking to others

Problem Solving

  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

  • Bringing people together to solve differences
  • Understanding people's reactions

Current Job Market and Opportunites for a Performance Scout

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