Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a sports equipment repair technician can go next

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

Sports equipment repair technicians maintain and repair recreational sports equipment such as tennis rackets, archery tools and camping equipment. They use specialised hand tools or mechanical tools to restore damaged parts.

Also known as sports equipment technician, archery bows repairer, sporting goods repair technician, sporting goods repairer, camping equipment repair technician.

Craft and related trades workers 37 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: power tool repair technician, 52%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
power tool repair technician 52% covered consumer electronics repair t… 49% covered office equipment repair techn… 47% covered household appliances repair t… 44% covered bicycle mechanic 43% covered sports equipment repair t… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from sports equipment repair technician, 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 sports equipment repair technician 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 sports 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.

Required skill Area
  • make bowstrings handling and moving
  • sporting equipment usage services
  • follow trends in sporting equipment information skills
  • advise on equipment maintenance communication, collaboration and creativity
  • features of sporting equipment services
  • use repair manuals information skills
  • arrange equipment repairs management skills
  • use power tools handling and moving
  • maintain records of maintenance interventions information skills
  • replace defect components working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Sports equipment repair technician 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 sports 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.