Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a spot welder can go next

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

Spot welders set up and tend spot welding machines designed to press and join metal workpieces together. The metal resistance to the passage of electrical current and the subsequent heat created in the process allows for the local melting and joining of the parts.

Craft and related trades workers 53 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: riveter, 73%

riveter 73% covered brazier 70% covered nailing machine operator 69% covered metal rolling mill operator 69% covered boring machine operator 68% covered spot welder You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from spot welder. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a spot welder already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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spot welder 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

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a spot welder already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.