Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a laundry worker can go next

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

Laundry workers operate and monitor machines that use chemicals to wash or dry-clean articles such as cloth and leather garments, linens, drapes or carpets, ensuring the color and texture of these articles is being maintained. They work in laundry shops and industrial laundry companies and sort the articles received from clients by fabric type. They also determine the cleaning technique to be applied.

Also known as laundry and dry cleaning operator, laundry and dry cleaning assistant, laundry and dry cleaning manager, dry cleaning worker, clothes washer, dry cleaner, laundry and dry cleaning worke, laundry and dry cleaning supervisor.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 42 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: laundry ironer, 79%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
laundry ironer 79% covered laundromat attendant 45% covered drapery and carpet cleaner 39% covered spa attendant 36% covered linen room attendant 35% covered laundry worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from laundry worker, 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 laundry worker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A laundry worker 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
  • operate washer extractor handling and moving
  • apply prespotting handling and moving
  • eliminate stains handling and moving
  • identify cloth items handling and moving
  • operate tumble dryer handling and moving
  • operate tunnel finisher machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • types of staining services
  • read care labels handling and moving
  • inspect dry cleaning materials handling and moving
  • clean household linens handling and moving
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Laundry worker is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. 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 laundry worker’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.