Where an office equipment repair technician can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an office equipment repair technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Office equipment repair technicians provide services to businesses related to installing, maintaining and repairing new or existing equipment such as printers, scanners and modems, on the clients' premises. They keep records of performed services and return equipment to a repair centre if needed.
Also known as office facility repair inspector, electronic service technician, office facilities inspector, office equipment service inspector, office facilities manager, office machines technician, copier repair technician, office service inspector, office facilities tecnhician, IT repair inspector, office service technician, IT repair technician.
Craft and related trades workers 40 skills on file 5 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: consumer electronics repair technician, 76%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- consumer electronics repair technician 76% covered · difficulty 27.6
- household appliances repair technician 73% covered · difficulty 32.7
- ATM repair technician 68% covered · difficulty 36
- computer hardware repair technician 66% covered · difficulty 41.8
- power tool repair technician 53% covered · difficulty 52.5
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
An office equipment repair technician needs 18 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- instruct clients on the usage of office equipment communication, collaboration and creativity
- set up office equipment management skills
- repair equipment on site working with machinery and specialised equipment
- repair electronic components working with machinery and specialised equipment
- use diagnostic tools for electronic repairs working with machinery and specialised equipment
- use repair manuals information skills
- provide customer information related to repairs communication, collaboration and creativity
- perform maintenance on installed equipment constructing
- maintain records of maintenance interventions information skills
- replace defect components working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an office equipment repair technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- computer hardware repair technician 72% covered · difficulty 34.2
- household appliances repair technician 67% covered · difficulty 38.7
- consumer electronics repair technician 63% covered · difficulty 42.2
- ATM repair technician 63% covered · difficulty 43.1
- mobile phone repair technician 61% covered · difficulty 44.6
- power tool repair technician 53% covered · difficulty 51.7
- sports equipment repair technician 47% covered · difficulty 56.6
- gunsmith 43% covered · difficulty 59.5
- bicycle mechanic 41% covered · difficulty 61.9
- watch and clock repairer 41% covered · difficulty 61.5
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Office equipment repair technician is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an office equipment repair technician’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.