Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an envelope maker can go next

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

Envelope makers tend a machine that takes in paper and executes the steps to creat envelopes: cut and fold the paper and glue it, then apply a weaker food-grade glue to the flap of the envelope for the consumer to seal it.

Also known as envelope making machine technician, envelope making machine operator, envelope machine worker, envelope machine specialist, envelope machine technician, envelope machine operator, envelope machine operative, envelope making machine specialist, envelope making machine worker.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 35 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: laminating machine operator, 73%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
laminating machine operator 73% covered paper bag machine operator 68% covered print folding operator 63% covered nailing machine operator 63% covered paperboard products assembler 63% covered envelope maker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from envelope maker, 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 an envelope maker 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

An envelope maker needs 16 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
  • adjust envelope cutting settings working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • ensure envelope quality information skills
  • envelope cutting standards engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • operate envelope machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • check paper quality information skills
  • lift stacks of paper handling and moving
  • trim excess material handling and moving
  • monitor conveyor belt information skills
  • work safely with machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • supply machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Envelope maker is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. 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 an envelope maker’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.