Where a carpenter can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a carpenter already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Carpenters cut, shape and assemble wooden elements for the construction of buildings and other structures. They also use materials such as plastic and metal in their creations. Carpenters create the wooden frames to support wood framed buildings.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 74%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 11difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 55required or supplementary
Table 1 · Within reach
- staircase installer 74% covered · difficulty 35.6
- carpenter supervisor 66% covered · difficulty 42.1
- bricklayer 62% covered · difficulty 46.4
- hardwood floor layer 61% covered · difficulty 47.8
- ceiling installer 57% covered · difficulty 48.5
- stonemason 56% covered · difficulty 48.9
- insulation worker 55% covered · difficulty 52
- plasterer 54% covered · difficulty 51.2
- construction painter 53% covered · difficulty 51.6
- construction scaffolder 52% covered · difficulty 48.8
- resilient floor layer 52% covered · difficulty 51.2
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
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carpenter is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a carpenter already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.