Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a stone engraver can go next

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

Stone engravers use hand tools, machines and chemical products to etch and carve patterns and inscriptions on stone surfaces.

Also known as stone carver, stone etcher, laser engraver, engraver of stone, bespoke stone engraver, hand carver, decorative stonemason, stone hand engraver.

Craft and related trades workers 39 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: stone polisher, 58%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
stone polisher 58% covered glass engraver 56% covered metal engraver 52% covered nailing machine operator 52% covered printmaker 51% covered stone engraver You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from stone engraver, 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 stone engraver already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A stone engraver needs 16 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
  • cool workpiece handling and moving
  • types of engraving stone arts and humanities
  • sketch designs on workpieces communication, collaboration and creativity
  • inspect stone surface information skills
  • wash stone handling and moving
  • position engraving equipment handling and moving
  • types of engraving needles engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • clean engraved areas handling and moving
  • prepare workpieces for engraving handling and moving
  • prepare workpieces for etching handling and moving
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Stone engraver is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. 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 stone engraver’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.