Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a ceramic painter can go next

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

Ceramic painters design and create visual art on ceramic surfaces and objects such as tiles, sculptures, tableware and pottery. They use a variety of techniques to produce decorative illustrations ranging from stenciling to free-hand drawing.

Also known as ceramic designer and painter, ceramics painter, ceramic painter and decorator, ceramic designer & painter, ceramic artist, decorator of ceramics, ceramic painter & decorator, painter of ceramic articles, ceramic decorator.

Craft and related trades workers 36 skills on file 5 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: glass painter, 82%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
decorative painter 80% covered wood painter 81% covered artistic painter 67% covered street artist 45% covered glass painter 82% covered ceramic painter You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from ceramic painter, 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 ceramic painter 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 ceramic painter needs 19 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
  • use paint safety equipment assisting and caring
  • articulate artistic proposal communication, collaboration and creativity
  • create original paintings communication, collaboration and creativity
  • develop visual elements communication, collaboration and creativity
  • operate a ceramics kiln working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • submit preliminary artwork communication, collaboration and creativity
  • work independently as an artist communication, collaboration and creativity
  • create artwork communication, collaboration and creativity
  • paint surfaces constructing
  • use artistic materials for drawing communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Ceramic painter is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a ceramic painter’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.