Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a sign maker can go next

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

Sign makers design and develop signs for a variety of uses such as flyers, traffic signs, billboards and business signs. They use different materials and techniques and if necessary they install the sign on site. Furthermore they also perform maintenance and repairs.

Also known as traffic sign maker, road sign maker, road sign installer, signboard writer, advertising sign maker, road sign maintenance worker, sign installer, signwriter, sign maintenance worker, signboard maker, sign writer.

Craft and related trades workers 30 skills on file 1 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: performance video designer, 16%

Fig. 2 · Career map 1 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
performance video designer 16% covered sign maker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 1 nearest destinations from sign 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 sign maker already covers. All 1 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only one move is listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A sign maker needs 14 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 package communication, collaboration and creativity
  • plan new packaging designs communication, collaboration and creativity
  • develop design plans communication, collaboration and creativity
  • conduct research on trends in design information skills
  • develop design ideas cooperatively communication, collaboration and creativity
  • collaborate with designers communication, collaboration and creativity
  • present artistic design proposals communication, collaboration and creativity
  • develop design concept communication, collaboration and creativity
  • draw design sketches communication, collaboration and creativity
  • monitor developments in technology used for design information skills
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Sign maker is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. 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 sign 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.