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Where an interior designer can go next

2 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an interior designer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Interior designers design or renovate of internal spaces, including structural alterations, fixtures and fittings, lighting and colour schemes, furnishings. They combine the efficient and functional use of space with an understanding of aesthetics.

Also known as interior space planner, space planner & interior decorator, spatial designer, interior & spatial designer, spatial design expert, interior designer & planner, interior design expert, facility interior designer, designer of interiors, interior architectural designer, space planner, interiors designer.

Technicians and associate professionals 28 skills on file 2 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: furniture designer, 39%

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

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

The 2 nearest destinations from interior designer, 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 an interior designer already covers. All 2 are listed in the tables below.

Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 2 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

An interior designer 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

receive key information about projects management skills
monitor trends in interior design information skills
prepare detailed working drawings for interior design communication, collaboration and creativity
room aesthetics arts and humanities
develop a specific interior design communication, collaboration and creativity
manage portfolio communication, collaboration and creativity
materials for interior design arts and humanities
create mood boards communication, collaboration and creativity
research new ideas information skills
monitor art scene developments information skills

Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an interior designer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Interior designer is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 an interior designer’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.