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

furniture designertoindustrial designer

A furniture designer already meets 22% of what the industrial designer role asks for. The move turns on 14 required skills not yet in the profile.

From furniture designer
22%
Overlap1
To industrial designer
12 Skills carried over
14 Required, not held
80.6 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

22%

Learning distance A rebuild

80.6/ 100

1 Share of the industrial designer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the furniture designer 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 industrial designer role treats 6 of its required skills as things a furniture designer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • aesthetics
  • design management
  • design principles
  • draft design specifications
  • industrial design
  • present artistic design proposals

What stands in the way is 14 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 12 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A industrial designer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a furniture designer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held attend design meetings communication, collaboration and creativity
  • 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 design management business, administration and law
  • already held present artistic design proposals communication, collaboration and creativity

All 12 carried skills, including the 6 the industrial designer role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 55 missing skills fall into 12 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, 13 supplementary
  • required, not held perform ideation activities required
  • required, not held determine suitability of materials required
  • required, not held draw design sketches required
  • required, not held follow a brief required
  • required, not held liaise with engineers required
  • optional, not held adapt existing designs to changed circumstances optional
  • optional, not held design package optional
  • optional, not held develop jewellery designs optional
  • optional, not held identify customer's needs optional
  • optional, not held prospect new customers optional
  • optional, not held think creatively about jewellery optional
  • optional, not held collaborate with engineers optional
  • optional, not held create a product's virtual model optional
  • optional, not held design prototypes optional
  • optional, not held draw blueprints optional
  • optional, not held manage contracts optional
  • optional, not held prepare production prototypes optional
  • optional, not held write manuals optional
02 engineering, manufacturing and construction 3 required, 6 supplementary
  • required, not held engineering processes required
  • required, not held engineering principles required
  • required, not held manufacturing processes required
  • optional, not held human-robot collaboration optional
  • optional, not held types of glazing optional
  • optional, not held types of toy materials optional
  • optional, not held hydraulics optional
  • optional, not held industrial engineering optional
  • optional, not held types of packaging materials optional
03 information skills 2 required, 6 supplementary
  • required, not held conduct research on trends in design required
  • required, not held perform market research required
  • optional, not held calculate design costs optional
  • optional, not held analyse production processes for improvement optional
  • optional, not held calculate materials to build equipment optional
  • optional, not held determine production feasibility optional
  • optional, not held monitor production developments optional
  • optional, not held perform physical stress tests on models optional
04 management skills 1 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held meet deadlines required
  • optional, not held coordinate manufacturing production activities optional
  • optional, not held perform project management optional
  • optional, not held plan event marketing for promotional campaigns optional
05 business, administration and law 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held copyright legislation required
  • optional, not held cost management optional
06 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held mathematics required
  • optional, not held pneumatics optional

6 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a industrial 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 12 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held aesthetics knowledge
  • already held design management knowledge
  • already held design principles knowledge
  • already held draft design specifications skill
  • already held industrial design knowledge
  • already held present artistic design proposals skill
  • already held 3D modelling knowledge
  • already held CAD software knowledge
  • already held adapt to new design materials skill
  • already held attend design meetings skill
  • already held consult with design team skill
  • already held use specialised design software skill
The 6 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 services 1 required
  • required, not held ergonomics required
08 working with computers 5 supplementary
  • optional, not held apply 3D imaging techniques optional
  • optional, not held use CAE software optional
  • optional, not held apply desktop publishing techniques optional
  • optional, not held use CAD software optional
  • optional, not held use technical drawing software optional
09 arts and humanities 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held ceramic ware optional
  • optional, not held jewellery processes optional
10 handling and moving 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held build jewellery models optional
  • optional, not held build a product's physical model optional
11 assisting and caring 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held produce sustainable products optional
12 information and communication technologies (icts) 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held CAM software optional
41 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held CAM software optional
  • optional, not held adapt existing designs to changed circumstances optional
  • optional, not held apply 3D imaging techniques optional
  • optional, not held build jewellery models optional
  • optional, not held calculate design costs optional
  • optional, not held ceramic ware optional
  • optional, not held cost management optional
  • optional, not held design package optional
  • optional, not held develop jewellery designs optional
  • optional, not held human-robot collaboration optional
  • optional, not held identify customer's needs optional
  • optional, not held jewellery processes optional
  • optional, not held prospect new customers optional
  • optional, not held think creatively about jewellery optional
  • optional, not held types of glazing optional
  • optional, not held types of toy materials optional
  • optional, not held use CAE software optional
  • optional, not held analyse production processes for improvement optional
  • optional, not held apply desktop publishing techniques optional
  • optional, not held build a product's physical model optional
  • optional, not held calculate materials to build equipment optional
  • optional, not held collaborate with engineers optional
  • optional, not held coordinate manufacturing production activities optional
  • optional, not held create a product's virtual model optional
  • optional, not held design prototypes optional
  • optional, not held determine production feasibility optional
  • optional, not held draw blueprints optional
  • optional, not held hydraulics optional
  • optional, not held industrial engineering optional
  • optional, not held manage contracts optional
  • optional, not held monitor production developments optional
  • optional, not held perform physical stress tests on models optional
  • optional, not held perform project management optional
  • optional, not held plan event marketing for promotional campaigns optional
  • optional, not held pneumatics optional
  • optional, not held prepare production prototypes optional
  • optional, not held produce sustainable products optional
  • optional, not held types of packaging materials optional
  • optional, not held use CAD software optional
  • optional, not held use technical drawing software optional

1 further entry not listed here

13 held skills the industrial designer role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role art history knowledge
  • not needed by the target role build props skill
  • not needed by the target role collaborate with a technical staff in artistic productions skill
  • not needed by the target role design materials for multimedia campaigns skill
  • not needed by the target role design original furniture skill
  • not needed by the target role design props skill
  • not needed by the target role develop design concept skill
  • not needed by the target role gather reference materials for artwork skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor art scene developments skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor exhibition designs skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor sociological trends skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor textile manufacturing developments skill
  • not needed by the target role transfer designs skill
17 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 engineering processes required
  • required, not held copyright legislation required
  • required, not held engineering principles required
  • required, not held ergonomics required
  • required, not held manufacturing processes required
  • required, not held mathematics required
  • optional, not held CAM software optional
  • optional, not held ceramic ware optional
  • optional, not held cost management optional
  • optional, not held human-robot collaboration optional
  • optional, not held jewellery processes optional
  • optional, not held types of glazing optional
  • optional, not held types of toy materials optional
  • optional, not held hydraulics optional
  • optional, not held industrial engineering optional
  • optional, not held pneumatics optional
  • optional, not held types of packaging materials optional
Index

Other moves recorded from furniture designer

Full index of moves from furniture designer

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.