Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an aesthetician can go next

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

Aestheticians offer skin care treatments. They apply various facial treatments according to their clients' needs and skin type, such as lotions, scrubs, peels and masks, in order to maintain the skin healthy and attractive. Aestheticians may also give neck massages and body treatments such as wraps. Aestheticians remove unwanted hair on different body parts like eyebrows, upper lip or the bikini area. They perform facial massage and apply make-up for various occasions.

Also known as facial treatment operator, cosmetician, skin care specialist, beautician, facialist, skin care technician, beauty specialist.

Service and sales workers 41 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: manicurist, 68%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
manicurist 68% covered hair removal technician 65% covered pedicurist 56% covered tanning consultant 49% covered barber 41% covered aesthetician You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from aesthetician, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an aesthetician already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An aesthetician needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • perform body wrapping assisting and caring
  • perform facial treatment assisting and caring
  • use hair removal techniques assisting and caring
  • cosmetic skin treatment services
  • determine skin type assisting and caring
  • use laser therapy for skin conditions assisting and caring
  • make-up techniques services
  • test make-up information skills
  • cosmetics ingredients services
  • advise customers on usage of cosmetics communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an aesthetician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Aesthetician is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an aesthetician’s work. 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.