Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a production potter can go next

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

Production potters process and form clay, by hand or by using the wheel, into end-products pottery, stoneware products, earthenware products and porcelain. They introduce the already shaped clay into kilns, heating them at a high temperature in order to remove all the water from the clay.

Also known as craft potter, ceramics maker, abrasive wheel moulder, pottery and porcelain modeller, potter, pot maker.

Craft and related trades workers 32 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: pottery and porcelain caster, 46%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
pottery and porcelain caster 46% covered mineral crushing operator 29% covered glass polisher 29% covered plastic rolling machine opera… 27% covered belt builder 27% covered production potter You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from production potter, 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 production potter 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 production potter needs 16 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
  • prepare balls of clay handling and moving
  • shape clay handling and moving
  • apply glaze coating constructing
  • materials used in stoneware manufacturing engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • materials in porcelain manufacturing engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • manage different ceramic firing techniques working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • use abrasive wheel working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • ceramics glazes engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • handle different pottery materials handling and moving
  • polish clay products handling and moving
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a production potter does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Production potter 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

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a production potter’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.