Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a drafter can go next

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

Drafters prepare and create technical drawings using a special software or manual techniques, to show how something is built or works.

Also known as CAD draughter, drafting specialist, drafting expert, drafting consultant, computer aided design draughter, draftsperson, draughtsperson, drafting adviser, draughter.

Technicians and associate professionals 90 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: product development engineering drafter, 80%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
automotive engineering drafter 78% covered printed circuit board designer 77% covered architectural drafter 76% covered product development engineeri… 80% covered electrical drafter 75% covered drafter You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from drafter, 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 drafter already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A drafter needs 24 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
  • make drawings communication, collaboration and creativity
  • prepare detailed working drawings for interior design communication, collaboration and creativity
  • design circuits using CAD communication, collaboration and creativity
  • architectural design engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • use CADD software working with computers
  • manual draughting techniques arts and humanities
  • blueprints engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • use manual draughting techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
  • construction methods engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • draw design sketches communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Drafter is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 drafter’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.