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

keyboard musical instrument makertoguitar maker

A keyboard musical instrument maker already meets 74% of what the guitar maker role asks for. The move turns on 7 required skills not yet in the profile.

From keyboard musical instrument maker
74%
Overlap1
To guitar maker
35 Skills carried over
7 Required, not held
31.8 Difficulty2
Career overlap Strong match

74%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

31.8/ 100

1 Share of the guitar maker role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the keyboard musical instrument maker 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 guitar maker role treats 14 of its required skills as things a keyboard musical instrument maker already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • apply a protective layer
  • assemble musical instrument parts
  • create musical instrument parts
  • create smooth wood surface
  • decorate musical instruments
  • join wood elements

What stands in the way is 7 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 35 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A guitar maker role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a keyboard musical instrument maker background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held tuning techniques arts and humanities
  • already held assemble musical instrument parts handling and moving
  • already held create musical instrument parts handling and moving
  • already held musical instruments materials arts and humanities
  • already held design musical instruments communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held musical instrument accessories arts and humanities

All 35 carried skills, including the 14 the guitar maker role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 8 missing skills fall into 5 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 arts and humanities 2 required
  • required, not held types of guitars required
  • required, not held types of strings required
02 engineering, manufacturing and construction 2 required
  • required, not held types of wood required
  • required, not held wood cuts required
03 handling and moving 2 required
  • required, not held make bowstrings required
  • required, not held produce guitar components required
04 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required
  • required, not held tune stringed musical instruments required
05 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held set up the controller of a machine optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a guitar maker 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 35 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held apply a protective layer skill
  • already held assemble musical instrument parts skill
  • already held create musical instrument parts skill
  • already held create smooth wood surface skill
  • already held decorate musical instruments skill
  • already held join wood elements skill
  • already held maintain musical instruments skill
  • already held manipulate wood skill
  • already held metalworking knowledge
  • already held musical instruments knowledge
  • already held musical instruments materials knowledge
  • already held repair musical instruments skill
  • already held sand wood skill
  • already held tuning techniques knowledge
  • already held 3D modelling knowledge
  • already held acoustics knowledge
  • already held apply restoration techniques skill
  • already held conservation techniques knowledge
  • already held design musical instruments skill
  • already held dye wood skill
  • already held estimate restoration costs skill
  • already held estimate value of musical instruments skill
  • already held evaluate restoration procedures skill
  • already held history of musical instruments knowledge
  • already held identify customer's needs skill
  • already held musical instrument accessories knowledge
  • already held organic building materials knowledge
  • already held pass on trade techniques skill
  • already held play musical instruments skill
  • already held restore musical instruments skill
  • already held select restoration activities skill
  • already held stain wood skill
  • already held technical drawings knowledge
  • already held trade in musical instruments skill
  • already held verify product specifications skill
1 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held set up the controller of a machine optional
13 held skills the guitar maker role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role build a product's physical model skill
  • not needed by the target role chemistry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role create wood joints skill
  • not needed by the target role develop design plans skill
  • not needed by the target role install organs skill
  • not needed by the target role join metals skill
  • not needed by the target role produce harpsichord components skill
  • not needed by the target role produce organ components skill
  • not needed by the target role produce piano components skill
  • not needed by the target role sales promotion techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role tune keyboard music instruments skill
  • not needed by the target role types of metal knowledge
  • not needed by the target role woodturning knowledge
4 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 types of guitars required
  • required, not held types of strings required
  • required, not held types of wood required
  • required, not held wood cuts required
Index
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.