Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a model maker can go next

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

Model makers create three-dimensional scale models or various designs or concepts and for various purposes, such as models of human skeletons or organs. They also mount the models on display stands so that they can be used for their final purpose such as inclusion in education activities.

Also known as model designer, maker, model builder, model fabricator, model expert, modeller.

Professionals 42 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: aircraft de-icer installer, 34%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
aircraft de-icer installer 34% covered motor vehicle parts assembler 33% covered boat rigger 31% covered bicycle assembler 31% covered motor vehicle body assembler 30% covered model maker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from model maker, 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 model maker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A model maker 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
  • design scale models communication, collaboration and creativity
  • use traditional illustration techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
  • use digital illustration techniques working with computers
  • build a product's physical model handling and moving
  • follow a brief communication, collaboration and creativity
  • create a product's virtual model communication, collaboration and creativity
  • develop product design communication, collaboration and creativity
  • align components handling and moving
  • fasten components handling and moving
  • design principles arts and humanities
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Model maker is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 a model maker’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.