Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a furniture upholsterer can go next

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

Furniture upholsterers provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing and covers. Sometimes they have to remove old padding, filling and broken strings before to replace them using tools such as a tack puller, chisel or mallet. The aim is to provide comfort and beauty to seats as backs of the furniture.

Also known as chair maker, craftswoman upholster, seat builder, mattress builder, mattress maker, chair builder, chairmaker, seat maker, heritage upholsterer, commercial upholster, soft furnishing maker, craftsman upholster.

Craft and related trades workers 34 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: upholsterer, 82%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
mattress making machine opera… 77% covered upholsterer 82% covered antique furniture reproducer 39% covered frame maker 34% covered furniture finisher 32% covered furniture upholsterer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from furniture upholsterer, 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 furniture upholsterer 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 furniture upholsterer 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
  • install spring suspension working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • upholstery fillings engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • upholstery tools engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • perform upholstery repair handling and moving
  • decorate furniture communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide customized upholstery communication, collaboration and creativity
  • create patterns for textile products handling and moving
  • cut textiles handling and moving
  • furniture trends engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • clean furniture handling and moving
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Furniture upholsterer 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 furniture upholsterer’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.