Where a cabinet maker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a cabinet maker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Cabinet makers build cabinets or other pieces of furniture by cutting, shaping and fitting pieces of wood. They use different kind of power and hand tools, such as lathes, planers and saws.
Also known as furniture constructor, hand crafted furniture constructor, maker of chairs, craftsman cabinetmaker, chair maker, craftswoman cabinet maker, furniture design and maker, cabinetmaker, manufacture of storage units, maker of settees, craftsman cabinet maker, hand crafted furniture maker.
Craft and related trades workers 43 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: antique furniture reproducer, 68%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A cabinet maker 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.
- repair furniture frames handling and moving
- create furniture frames handling and moving
- design original furniture communication, collaboration and creativity
- tend boring machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
- woodturning engineering, manufacturing and construction
- furniture trends engineering, manufacturing and construction
- sanding techniques engineering, manufacturing and construction
- design objects to be crafted communication, collaboration and creativity
- wood products engineering, manufacturing and construction
- apply wood finishes constructing
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a cabinet maker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- wicker furniture maker 61% covered · difficulty 44.3
- antique furniture reproducer 59% covered · difficulty 47.3
- furniture assembler 54% covered · difficulty 52.2
- furniture finisher 47% covered · difficulty 57.7
- frame maker 40% covered · difficulty 64.6
- furniture restorer 40% covered · difficulty 64.5
- cooper 30% covered · difficulty 72
- brush maker 20% covered · difficulty 79.8
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Cabinet maker is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a cabinet maker’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.