Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a smart home installer can go next

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

Smart home installers install and maintain home automation systems (heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), lighting, solar shading, irrigation, security, safety, etc.), connected devices, and smart appliances at customersites. In addition, they serve as a customer educator and resource for product and service recommendations that meet the customers’ needs for home comfort, convenience, security and safety.

Also known as home automation installer, connected devices installer, domotics installer, home automation technician, domotics technician, smart home technician.

Craft and related trades workers 31 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: domestic electrician, 37%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
domestic electrician 37% covered security alarm technician 30% covered smart home engineer 30% covered building electrician 27% covered industrial electrician 27% covered smart home installer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from smart home installer, 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 smart home installer 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 smart home installer needs 27 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
  • advise customers on smart homes technology communication, collaboration and creativity
  • install lighting communication, collaboration and creativity
  • alarm systems services
  • cameras arts and humanities
  • domotic systems engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • install smart devices constructing
  • types of alarm systems services
  • assess integrated domotics systems information skills
  • install electrical household appliances working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • provide door security assisting and caring
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Smart home installer 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 smart home installer’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.