Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a wood painter can go next

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

Wood painters design and create visual art on wooden surfaces and objects such as furniture, figurines and toys. They use a variety of techniques to produce decorative illustrations ranging from stenciling to free-hand drawing.

Also known as decorator of wooden items, wooden items decorator, wood painter and designer, wood painter & designer, wood painting specialist, wooden items painter, wood decorator.

Craft and related trades workers 35 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: decorative painter, 82%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
ceramic painter 72% covered artistic painter 65% covered street artist 49% covered sculptor 49% covered decorative painter 82% covered wood painter You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from wood painter, 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 wood painter 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 wood painter needs 14 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
  • articulate artistic proposal communication, collaboration and creativity
  • create original paintings communication, collaboration and creativity
  • develop visual elements communication, collaboration and creativity
  • submit preliminary artwork communication, collaboration and creativity
  • work independently as an artist communication, collaboration and creativity
  • create artwork communication, collaboration and creativity
  • use artistic materials for drawing communication, collaboration and creativity
  • use painting techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
  • create sketches communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain an artistic portfolio communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Wood painter is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a wood painter’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.