Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a cooper can go next

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

Coopers build barrels and related products made of segments of wood, like wooden buckets. They shape the wood, fit hoops around them, and shape the barrel to hold the product, which contemporarily is usually premium alcoholic beverages.

Also known as barrel assembler, wooden barrel constuctor, wooden barrel maker, wooden barrel builder, barrel constuctor, master barrel builder, barrel maker, wooden barrel assembler, master cooper.

Craft and related trades workers 36 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: woodcarver, 42%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
woodcarver 42% covered wood products assembler 32% covered manufactured wooden building … 30% covered basketmaker 30% covered cabinet maker 30% covered cooper You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from cooper, 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 cooper 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 cooper needs 14 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
  • assemble barrels handling and moving
  • bend staves working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • char barrels handling and moving
  • finish barrels handling and moving
  • make barrel heads working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • manufacture of wooden barrels engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • wood moisture content engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • clean wood surface handling and moving
  • woodworking tools engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • adjust cut sizes handling and moving
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Cooper 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 cooper’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.