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

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

Lithographers make and prepare metal plates to be used as the original in various printing processes and media. Plates are usually laser-etched from digital sources with computer-to-plate technology, but can also be made by applying types of emulsions to the printing plate.

Craft and related trades workers 43 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: prepress technician, 44%

prepress technician 44% covered offset printer 42% covered digital printer 40% covered flexographic press operator 38% covered gravure press operator 36% covered lithographer You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from lithographer. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a lithographer 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 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

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lithographer 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 lithographer 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.