Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a metal polisher can go next

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

Metal polishers use metal working equipment and machinery to polish and buff almost finished metal workpieces in order to enhance their smoothness and appearance and to remove oxidisation, tarnishing the metal after the other fabrication processes. They may operate equipment using diamond solutions, silicon-made polishing pads, or working wheels with a leather polishing strop, and tend to these materials ensuring their effectiveness.

Craft and related trades workers 44 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: tumbling machine operator, 76%

tumbling machine operator 76% covered metal drawing machine operator 68% covered surface grinding machine oper… 68% covered cylindrical grinder operator 67% covered deburring machine operator 66% covered metal polisher You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from metal polisher. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a metal polisher already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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metal polisher 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

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a metal polisher already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.