Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a curing room worker can go next

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

Curing room workers assist in the blending, aging, and fermenting of tobacco strips and stems for the production of cigars, chewing tobacco and snuff.

Also known as tobacco curer, tobacco curing room worker, tobacco dryer, tobacco drier, tobacco roaster, tobacco drying machine operator, tobacco drying worker, curing room attendant, tobacco drier operator, curing room assistant, tobacco drying machine tender, curing room operative.

Craft and related trades workers 43 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: leaf tier, 68%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
leaf tier 68% covered leaf sorter 66% covered cigarette making machine oper… 57% covered cigar inspector 46% covered cigar brander 42% covered curing room worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from curing room worker, 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 curing room worker 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 curing room worker needs 31 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
  • air-cure tobacco handling and moving
  • assess fermentation levels of tobacco leaves handling and moving
  • cut tobacco leaves handling and moving
  • ferment stacks of tobacco leaves handling and moving
  • fermentation process of tobacco leaves engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • flavour tobacco leaves handling and moving
  • flue-cure tobacco handling and moving
  • perform kiln fermentation of tobacco leaves working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • sun-cure tobacco handling and moving
  • tie tobacco leaves in hands handling and moving
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Curing room worker 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 curing room worker’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.