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

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

Music arrangers create arrangements for music after its creation by a composer. They interpret, adapt or rework a composition for other instruments or voices, or to another style. Music arrangers are experts in instruments and orchestration, harmony, polyphony and composition techniques.

Professionals 16 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: composer, 43%

composer 43% covered music director 39% covered choirmaster/choirmistress 25% covered lyricist 21% covered musical conductor 21% covered music arranger You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from music arranger. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a music arranger 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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music arranger is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 music arranger 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.