Career Overlap Occupation record
RecordJob

Where a butcher can go next

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

Butchers order, inspect and buy meat to prepare it and sell it as consumable meat products. They perform activities such as cutting, trimming, boning, tying, and grinding beef, pork, and poultry meat. They prepare those mentioned sorts of meat for consumption.

Also known as animal butcher, butchery worker, butchery expert.

Craft and related trades workers 67 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: meat cutter, 74%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
meat cutter 74% covered meat preparations operator 71% covered prepared meat operator 71% covered fish trimmer 54% covered slaughterer 52% covered butcher You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from butcher, 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 butcher already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A butcher needs 36 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
  • operate meat processing equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • grind meat working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • handle knives for cutting activities handling and moving
  • prepare specialised meat products handling and moving
  • tend meat packaging machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • trace meat products handling and moving
  • warm blooded animal organs natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • cultural practices regarding animal parts sorting social sciences, journalism and information
  • split animal carcasses handling and moving
  • tend meat processing production machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a butcher does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Butcher is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. 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 butcher’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.