Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

ergonomisttofurniture designer

A ergonomist already meets 30% of what the furniture designer role asks for. The move turns on 11 required skills not yet in the profile.

From ergonomist
30%
Overlap1
To furniture designer
7 Skills carried over
11 Required, not held
68.7 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

30%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

68.7/ 100

1 Share of the furniture designer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the ergonomist profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A furniture designer role treats 5 of its required skills as things a ergonomist already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • adapt to new design materials
  • aesthetics
  • consult with design team
  • design principles
  • draft design specifications

What stands in the way is 11 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 7 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A furniture designer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a ergonomist background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held adapt to new design materials information skills
  • already held consult with design team communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held industrial design arts and humanities
  • already held aesthetics arts and humanities
  • already held draft design specifications communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held 3D modelling natural sciences, mathematics and statistics

All 7 carried skills, including the 5 the furniture designer role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 18 missing skills fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 communication, collaboration and creativity 5 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held attend design meetings required
  • required, not held design original furniture required
  • required, not held develop design concept required
  • required, not held transfer designs required
  • required, not held present artistic design proposals required
  • optional, not held build props optional
  • optional, not held design props optional
  • optional, not held collaborate with a technical staff in artistic productions optional
  • optional, not held design materials for multimedia campaigns optional
02 information skills 5 required
  • required, not held monitor exhibition designs required
  • required, not held gather reference materials for artwork required
  • required, not held monitor art scene developments required
  • required, not held monitor sociological trends required
  • required, not held monitor textile manufacturing developments required
03 arts and humanities 1 required
  • required, not held art history required
04 business, administration and law 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held design management optional
05 information and communication technologies (icts) 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held CAD software optional
06 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held use specialised design software optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a furniture designer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 7 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held adapt to new design materials skill
  • already held aesthetics knowledge
  • already held consult with design team skill
  • already held design principles knowledge
  • already held draft design specifications skill
  • already held 3D modelling knowledge
  • already held industrial design knowledge
7 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held build props optional
  • optional, not held design management optional
  • optional, not held design props optional
  • optional, not held CAD software optional
  • optional, not held collaborate with a technical staff in artistic productions optional
  • optional, not held design materials for multimedia campaigns optional
  • optional, not held use specialised design software optional
26 held skills the furniture designer role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role adapt existing designs to changed circumstances skill
  • not needed by the target role apply 3D imaging techniques skill
  • not needed by the target role assess ergonomics of the workplace skill
  • not needed by the target role build a product's physical model skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct research on trends in design skill
  • not needed by the target role copyright legislation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role create a product's virtual model skill
  • not needed by the target role design prototypes skill
  • not needed by the target role determine suitability of materials skill
  • not needed by the target role draw design sketches skill
  • not needed by the target role engineering principles knowledge
  • not needed by the target role engineering processes knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ergonomics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role follow a brief skill
  • not needed by the target role gather feedback from employees skill
  • not needed by the target role human anatomy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role identify customer's needs skill
  • not needed by the target role manufacturing processes knowledge
  • not needed by the target role mathematics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role occupational health knowledge
  • not needed by the target role occupational physiology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role prepare production prototypes skill
  • not needed by the target role teach ergonomics in work place skill
  • not needed by the target role use CAD software skill
  • not needed by the target role use technical drawing software skill
  • not needed by the target role write manuals skill
3 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held art history required
  • optional, not held design management optional
  • optional, not held CAD software optional
Index

Other moves recorded from ergonomist

Full index of moves from ergonomist

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.