Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a telecommunications equipment maintainer can go next

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

Telecommunications equipment maintainers repair, install or maintain mobile or stationary radio transmitting, broadcasting, and receiving equipment, and two-way radio communications systems (cellular telecommunications, mobile broadband, ship-to-shore, aircraft-to-ground communications, radio equipment in service and emergency vehicles). They also focus on communication towers, antennas, amplifiers and connectors. They may test and analyse network coverage.

Craft and related trades workers 20 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: communication infrastructure maintainer, 27%

communication infrastructure … 27% covered radio technician 25% covered ICT network technician 24% covered telecommunications technician 21% covered broadcast technician 16% covered telecommunications equipm… You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from telecommunications equipment maintainer. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a telecommunications equipment maintainer 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 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Index

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telecommunications equipment maintainer 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

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a telecommunications equipment maintainer 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.