Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a harp maker can go next

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

Harp makers create and assemble parts to create harps according to specified instructions or diagrams. They sand wood, measure and attach strings, test quality of strings and inspect the finished instrument.

Also known as celtic harp maker, multi-course harp builder, multi-course harp maker, lever harp builder, wire harp maker, wire harp builder, lever harp maker, celtic harp builder, pedal harp maker, pedal harp builder.

Craft and related trades workers 38 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: electronic musical instrument maker, 79%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
electronic musical instrument… 79% covered keyboard musical instrument m… 78% covered wind musical instrument maker 75% covered organ builder 75% covered membranophone musical instrum… 74% covered harp maker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from harp 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 harp 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 harp maker needs 19 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 harp components handling and moving
  • 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
  • restore musical instruments handling and moving
  • decorate musical instruments communication, collaboration and creativity
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Harp maker is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. 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 harp 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.