Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a window cleaner can go next

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

Window cleaners use cleaning tools such as sponges and detergents to clean windows, mirrors and other glass surfaces of buildings, both on the interior and exterior. They use specific ladders to clean taller buildings, using safety belts for support.

Also known as building maintenance and cleaning worker, janitress, window washer.

Elementary occupations 35 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: toilet attendant, 56%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
toilet attendant 56% covered train cleaner 45% covered building cleaner 35% covered snow-clearing worker 29% covered amusement park cleaner 28% covered window cleaner You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from window cleaner, 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 window cleaner already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A window cleaner 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.

Required skill Area
  • follow reporting procedures communication, collaboration and creativity
  • prepare cleaning materials for window cleaning handling and moving
  • protect window frames constructing
  • report on window damage information skills
  • use a water-fed pole system handling and moving
  • risk assessment for window cleaning services
  • complete report sheets of activity information skills
  • follow organisational guidelines in the cleaning industry assisting and caring
  • maintain personal hygiene standards when cleaning handling and moving
  • maintain inventory of cleaning supplies information skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Window cleaner is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. 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 window cleaner’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.