Where a wig and hairpiece maker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a wig and hairpiece maker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Wig and hairpiece makers create adapt and maintain hair prostheses for use in live performance. They work from sketches, pictures and artistic visions combined with knowledge of the human body to ensure the wearer maximum range of movement. They work in close cooperation with the designers.
Also known as hairpiece maker, senior wig maker, wig-hairpiece maker, wig builder, wig consultant, wig maker, wig specialist, wig and hairpiece builder, make up artist & wig maker, junior wig maker, wig & hairpiece maker, wig and hairpiece technician.
Craft and related trades workers 26 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: performance hairdresser, 67%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A wig and hairpiece maker needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- create wigs communication, collaboration and creativity
- dye wigs assisting and caring
- decide on wig making process management skills
- maintain workshop space management skills
- maintain theatre equipment constructing
- maintain wigs handling and moving
- prepare personal work environment management skills
- understand artistic concepts communication, collaboration and creativity
- keep up with trends information skills
- translate artistic concepts to technical designs communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a wig and hairpiece maker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- costume maker 78% covered · difficulty 25.1
- scenic painter 77% covered · difficulty 27
- make-up and hair designer 76% covered · difficulty 26.3
- prop maker 72% covered · difficulty 31.5
- set builder 72% covered · difficulty 31.5
- performance hairdresser 72% covered · difficulty 31.1
- make-up artist 53% covered · difficulty 48.3
- dresser 50% covered · difficulty 52
- hair stylist 38% covered · difficulty 60.3
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Wig and hairpiece maker is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a wig and hairpiece maker’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.