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

stringed musical instrument makertomusical instrument technician

A stringed musical instrument maker already meets 81% of what the musical instrument technician role asks for. The move turns on 3 required skills not yet in the profile.

From stringed musical instrument maker
81%
Overlap1
To musical instrument technician
25 Skills carried over
3 Required, not held
19.4 Difficulty2
Career overlap Very strong match

81%

Learning distance Short step

19.4/ 100

1 Share of the musical instrument technician role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the stringed 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 musical instrument technician role treats 9 of its required skills as things a stringed musical instrument maker already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • assemble musical instrument parts
  • identify customer's needs
  • maintain musical instruments
  • musical instruments
  • musical instruments materials
  • repair musical instruments

What stands in the way is 3 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 25 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A musical instrument technician role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a stringed musical instrument maker background worth leading with.

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

All 25 carried skills, including the 9 the musical instrument technician role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 4 missing skills fall into 4 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 1 required
  • required, not held tune keyboard music instruments required
02 constructing 1 required
  • required, not held prevent technical problems of musical instruments required
03 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 required
  • required, not held rewire electronic musical instruments required
04 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held woodturning optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a musical instrument technician 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 25 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held assemble musical instrument parts skill
  • already held identify customer's needs skill
  • already held maintain musical instruments skill
  • already held musical instruments knowledge
  • already held musical instruments materials knowledge
  • already held repair musical instruments skill
  • already held restore musical instruments skill
  • already held tune stringed musical instruments skill
  • already held tuning techniques knowledge
  • already held acoustics knowledge
  • already held apply restoration techniques skill
  • already held create musical instrument parts skill
  • already held decorate musical instruments skill
  • already held design musical instruments 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 metalworking knowledge
  • 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 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 woodturning optional
25 held skills the musical instrument technician role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role 3D modelling knowledge
  • not needed by the target role apply a protective layer skill
  • not needed by the target role chemistry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role conservation techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role create smooth wood surface skill
  • not needed by the target role dye wood skill
  • not needed by the target role join wood elements skill
  • not needed by the target role make bowstrings skill
  • not needed by the target role manipulate wood skill
  • not needed by the target role produce guitar components skill
  • not needed by the target role produce harp components skill
  • not needed by the target role produce violin bows skill
  • not needed by the target role produce violin components skill
  • not needed by the target role sales promotion techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role sand wood skill
  • not needed by the target role select restoration activities skill
  • not needed by the target role set up the controller of a machine skill
  • not needed by the target role stain wood skill
  • not needed by the target role technical drawings knowledge
  • not needed by the target role types of guitars knowledge
  • not needed by the target role types of spring knowledge
  • not needed by the target role types of strings knowledge
  • not needed by the target role types of violins knowledge
  • not needed by the target role types of wood knowledge
  • not needed by the target role wood cuts knowledge
1 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
  • optional, not held woodturning optional
Index

Other moves recorded from stringed musical instrument maker

Full index of moves from stringed musical instrument maker

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.