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

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

Optical engineers design and develop different industrial applications with optics. They have knowledge of light, light transmission principles, and optics in order to design engineering specs of equipment such as microscopes, lenses, telescopes, and other optical devices.

Highest coverage recorded
71%
Destinations
5each with a full record
Within reach
5difficulty under 55
Skills on file
118required or supplementary
Table 1
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optical engineer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a optical engineer 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.