Occupation Atlaswoodcarver
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b9d03330-c71c-4827-8797-3e96249d54db
woodcarver
Woodcarvers manually shape wood into the desired shape using equipment like knives, gouges and chisels. Woodcarvers produce wooden products to serve as decoration, to be integrated into a composite product, as utensils or as toys.
Job Zone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
RACRealistic · Artistic · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic6.58
- A Artistic4.06
- C Conventional4.04
- I Investigative2.06
- S Social1.29
- E Enterprising1.26
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Patternmakers, Wood (51-7032.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (17)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- apply wood finishes
- carve materials
- check quality of raw materials
- clean wood surface
- join wood elements
- maintain edged hand tools
- manipulate wood
- operate wood sawing equipment
- recognise signs of wood rot
- sand wood
- tend lathe
- turn wood
- types of wood
- use wood carving knives
- wood cuts
- woodworking processes
- woodworking tools
Optional (27)
- advise customers on wood products
- answer requests for quotation
- apply restoration techniques
- clean engraved areas
- decorate furniture
- design objects to be crafted
- dry wood
- dye wood
- engrave patterns
- estimate restoration costs
- evaluate restoration procedures
- keep personal administration
- maintain equipment
- manage supplies
- negotiate supplier arrangements
- operate engraving equipment
- operate manual planer
- prepare workpieces for engraving
- prepare workpieces for etching
- sell furniture
- sell household goods
- stain wood
- store products
- technical drawings
- treat wood
- types of arrows
- use painting equipment
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 17 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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6 shared · 5 more of its ownuse wood carving knives, maintain edged hand tools, apply wood finishes, wood cuts
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6 shared · 8 more of its ownclean wood surface, woodworking tools, woodworking processes, join wood elements
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cabinet maker
6 shared · 14 more of its ownapply wood finishes, clean wood surface, operate wood sawing equipment, join wood elements
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6 shared · 19 more of its ownapply wood finishes, clean wood surface, woodworking tools, join wood elements
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wood products assembler
5 shared · 7 more of its ownwoodworking tools, woodworking processes, join wood elements, manipulate wood
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