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Where a domestic electrician can go next

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

Domestic electricians install and maintain electrical infrastructures and domestic machinery in homes and other residential buildings. They perform inspections and repair defective parts to ensure efficiency.

Also known as electrician, residential electrician, domestic and commercial electrician.

Craft and related trades workers 42 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: building electrician, 81%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1

70% and above · short step
50 to 70% · real move
Below 50% · substantial retraining

The 5 nearest destinations from domestic electrician, 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 domestic electrician 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 domestic electrician 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

repair household appliances working with machinery and specialised equipment
install electrical household appliances working with machinery and specialised equipment
install electricity sockets working with machinery and specialised equipment
install electric switches working with machinery and specialised equipment
building systems monitoring technology engineering, manufacturing and construction
splice cable working with machinery and specialised equipment
electrical household appliances products engineering, manufacturing and construction
inspect electrical supplies constructing
test procedures in electricity transmission constructing
test electronic units constructing

Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Domestic electrician 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 domestic electrician’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.