Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a building construction worker can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a building construction worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Building construction workers prepare and maintain building construction activities on construction sites. They perform preparation and clean-up work in order to assist specialised construction workers.

Also known as construction worker, construction site labourer, construction site worker, mechanical construction worker, building site labourer, construction labourer, building site worker, electrical construction worker, building construction labourer, installation and commissioning construction worker, civil construction worker.

Elementary occupations 49 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: plasterer, 41%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
plasterer 41% covered concrete finisher 34% covered bricklayer 32% covered rigger 31% covered ceiling installer 30% covered building construction wor… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from building construction worker, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a building construction worker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A building construction worker needs 20 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • inspect masonry work information skills
  • move soil working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • operate digging construction equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • prepare wall for wallpaper constructing
  • apply finish to concrete handling and moving
  • place drywall constructing
  • prepare surface for plastering constructing
  • discharge cement working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • prepare surface for painting handling and moving
  • install wood elements in structures constructing
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Building construction worker is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a building construction worker’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.