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Where an interior planner can go next

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

Interior planners help clients in planning their interiors for commercial and private use.

Also known as interior designer, interior architect, interior space planner, spatial planner, interior design consultant, interior and spatial planner, interior adviser, commercial space planner.

Technicians and associate professionals 30 skills on file 2 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: interior architect, 22%

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 planner, 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 planner 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 planner needs 15 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

evaluate spatial information information skills
measure interior space information skills
room aesthetics arts and humanities
estimate budget for interior design plans information skills
develop design plans communication, collaboration and creativity
meet building regulations assisting and caring
materials for interior design arts and humanities
create new concepts communication, collaboration and creativity
conduct research on trends in design information skills
ensure infrastructure accessibility communication, collaboration and creativity

Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Interior planner 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 planner’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.