Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a stone polisher can go next

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

Stone polishers operate grinding and polishing tools and equipment in order to smooth stones.

Also known as hand stone polisher, worktop polisher, wet stone polisher, stone polishing worker, granite polisher, marble polisher, stone polishing machine operative, hand grinder, surface polisher.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 43 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: stone planer, 67%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
stone planer 67% covered stone driller 59% covered nailing machine operator 58% covered plastic rolling machine opera… 58% covered stone splitter 58% covered stone polisher You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from stone polisher, 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 polisher 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 polisher 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
  • use polishing compounds handling and moving
  • prepare stone for smoothing handling and moving
  • inspect stone surface information skills
  • use abrasive wheel working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • wash stone handling and moving
  • polish stone surfaces handling and moving
  • types of stone for working engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • personal protective equipment services
  • measure materials information skills
  • quality and cycle time optimisation engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Stone polisher is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. 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 polisher’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.