Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a woodcarver can go next

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

Woodcarvers manually shape wood into the desired shape using equipment like knives, gouges and chisels. Woodcarvers produce wooden products to serve as decoration, to be integrated into a composite product, as utensils or as toys.

Also known as traditional woodcarver, craft woodcarver, artisan woodworker, artisanal woodcarver, artisan, heritage woodworker, heritage wood worker, master woodcarver, craft wood carver, traditional handcarver, heritage wood carver, artisan wood worker.

Craft and related trades workers 44 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: basketmaker, 52%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
basketmaker 52% covered wood products assembler 40% covered cooper 39% covered furniture restorer 39% covered frame maker 38% covered woodcarver You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from woodcarver, 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 woodcarver 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 woodcarver 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
  • turn wood working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • use wood carving knives handling and moving
  • carve materials handling and moving
  • maintain edged hand tools handling and moving
  • recognise signs of wood rot information skills
  • tend lathe working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • apply wood finishes constructing
  • clean wood surface handling and moving
  • woodworking tools engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • operate wood sawing equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Woodcarver 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

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