Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a leather sorter can go next

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

Leather sorters inspect and classify leather during and at the end of the production process according to the qualitative features, destinations of use and customer requirements. They work in the tannery and in the warehouses checking the quality, colour, size, thickness, softness and natural defects.

Craft and related trades workers 19 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: leather measuring operator, 71%

leather measuring operator 71% covered leather production planner 67% covered leather laboratory technician 67% covered tanner 66% covered leather finishing operator 63% covered leather sorter You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from leather sorter. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a leather sorter already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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leather sorter 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

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a leather sorter already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.