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Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes
Represent and promote artists, performers, and athletes in dealings with current or prospective employers.
- Sector: Business & Finance
- Preparation: Zone 4 — considerable preparation needed
- O*NET code: 13-1011.00
What you'll actually do
The activities O*NET rates highest for this occupation, most important first. Numbers are out of 100.
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Getting Information
central to the job — rated 88/100 for importance.
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Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
a major part of the work — rated 78/100 for importance.
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Thinking Creatively
a major part of the work — rated 75/100 for importance.
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Communicating with People Outside the Organization
a major part of the work — rated 74/100 for importance.
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Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
a major part of the work — rated 71/100 for importance.
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Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
a major part of the work — rated 70/100 for importance.
Represent and promote artists, performers, and athletes in dealings with current or prospective employers. May handle contract negotiation and other business matters for clients.
What it takes
Two numbers per line: the level the work expects, and how important it is to doing the job well. Both are O*NET ratings, already on a 0–100 scale.
Skills
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Persuasion
Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Active Listening
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Negotiation
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Reading Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Speaking
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Knowledge
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Customer and Personal Service
Needed at a high level (68/100), and rated 84/100 for importance.
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Sales and Marketing
Needed at a high level (67/100), and rated 76/100 for importance.
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English Language
Needed at a solid working level (58/100), and rated 73/100 for importance.
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Administration and Management
Needed at a solid working level (58/100), and rated 71/100 for importance.
Abilities
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Oral Expression
Needed at a high level (61/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
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Oral Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Written Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Problem Sensitivity
Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
How people get in
O*NET places this occupation in Zone 4 — considerable preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.
Education
A four-year bachelor's degree is the usual entry ticket.
Experience
Two to four years of related work, internships or research on top of the degree.
Training
Most of the learning happens before you are hired, not after.
What it pays
These are typical finance compensation bands by employer tier — sector-level figures, not a measured salary for Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes specifically. Treat them as the shape of the market, then check a real posting for the number.
Goldman · JP Morgan · KKR
$150k – $400k+
Regional Banks & Funds
$85k – $130k
Credit Unions & Local Firms
$55k – $85k
How the work tends to run
Each line below is read off a single O*NET activity rating for this occupation — named, so you can disagree with it.
- Long-running relationships carry the work; the same people come back.From “Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships”
- There is real room to invent — the answer is not in a manual.From “Thinking Creatively”
How FlightWay scores your fit against this
No black box. Here is the whole method, factor by factor.
- 1. You answer a short quiz
- Your answers build a profile across the same 161 O*NET dimensions this page is describing — skills, knowledge, abilities and work activities. Same axes, so the comparison is like-for-like.
- 2. We correlate the two profiles
- Fit is a mean-centered cosine — a correlation between the SHAPE of your profile and the shape of Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes. Centering matters: raw similarity between any two occupations sits at 0.70–0.85 because all work shares a common profile, so without it every career would look like a match.
- 3. The number you see is personality fit only
- "Would I want this work" and "am I ready for this work" are different questions, and averaging them answers neither. So readiness — what your résumé, coursework and projects prove — is scored separately and shown next to fit, never blended into it.
- 4. Every factor is visible
- You can open any match and see which dimensions pushed it up and which pulled it down. If you disagree with the number, you can see exactly where it came from.
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See your fit for Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes
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