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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.

Highest coverage recorded: 77%
Destinations: 5each with a full record
Within reach: 2difficulty under 55
Skills on file: 34required or supplementary

Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

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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

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a furniture upholsterer already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.