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Where a fashion model can go next

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

Fashion models help promote products such as clothes, cosmetics and appliances by posing for journalists, photographers and in front of an audience on catwalks. They have to make sure their appearance is always in order. Fashion models need to look good in front of a camera and strike the right pose.

Also known as photographic model, editorial model, advertising model, promotional model, hair model, commercial model, runway model, plus-size model, glamour model.

Service and sales workers 22 skills on file 3 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: art model, 41%

Fig. 2 · Career map 3 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1

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

The 3 nearest destinations from fashion model, 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 fashion model already covers. All 3 are listed in the tables below.

Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 3 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A fashion model needs 11 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

attend castings communication, collaboration and creativity
pose in front of a camera communication, collaboration and creativity
make-up techniques services
harmonise body movements communication, collaboration and creativity
collaborate on costume and make-up for performances communication, collaboration and creativity
maintain an artistic portfolio communication, collaboration and creativity
maintain personal hygiene standards management skills
photography arts and humanities
show intercultural awareness communication, collaboration and creativity
manage personal professional development management skills

Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Fashion model is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. 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 a fashion model’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.