Career Overlap Occupation record
RecordJob

Where a guitar maker can go next

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

Guitar makers create and assemble parts to build guitars according to specified instructions or diagrams. They work wood, measure and attach strings, test quality of strings and inspect the finished instrument.

Also known as guitar technician, stringed instrument inspector, stringed instrument tester, guitar quality inspector, guitar tester, stringed instrument builder, guitar inspector, stringed instrument quality inspector, stringed instrument quality tester, guitar craftsman, guitar craftswoman, guitar quality tester.

Craft and related trades workers 43 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: electronic musical instrument maker, 81%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
keyboard musical instrument m… 79% covered wind musical instrument maker 78% covered organ builder 76% covered membranophone musical instrum… 76% covered electronic musical instrument… 81% covered guitar maker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from guitar 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 a guitar 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

A guitar maker needs 21 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
  • produce guitar components handling and moving
  • types of guitars arts and humanities
  • types of strings arts and humanities
  • tune stringed musical instruments communication, collaboration and creativity
  • make bowstrings handling and moving
  • tuning techniques arts and humanities
  • assemble musical instrument parts handling and moving
  • create musical instrument parts handling and moving
  • musical instruments materials arts and humanities
  • decorate musical instruments communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Guitar maker 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 guitar 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.