Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a sculptor can go next

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

Sculptors may use a wide variety of materials to create sculptures, such as stone, clay, glass, wood, plaster, or any material of their choice. Those materials can be carved, modelled, moulded, cast, wrought, welded, and so on, in order to reach the desired shape.

Also known as clay sculptress, metal sculptor, metal sculptress, ice sculptor, welded steel sculptor, wood sculptress, clay sculptor, sculpting artist, marble sculptress, wood sculptor, stone sculptor, sculptress.

Professionals 19 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: glass-blower, 58%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
glass-blower 58% covered street artist 39% covered conceptual artist 38% covered artistic painter 34% covered wood painter 30% covered sculptor You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from sculptor, 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 sculptor already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A sculptor needs 12 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
  • create model handling and moving
  • research sculpture trends information skills
  • create sculptures communication, collaboration and creativity
  • study artworks information skills
  • study artistic techniques information skills
  • create artwork communication, collaboration and creativity
  • monitor art scene developments information skills
  • design objects to be crafted communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain an artistic portfolio communication, collaboration and creativity
  • select artistic materials to create artworks communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Sculptor is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 sculptor’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.