Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an agronomist can go next

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

Agronomists provide consulting services to companies, agricultural cooperatives, agronomical crop growers and horticultural crop growers on the cultivation of food crops. They study the science, technology and business related to growing plants. They examine crops and perform experiments in order to improve crop yields and farms' production. Agronomists also examine the most effective ways to harvest and cultivate plants.

Also known as agronomy analyst, agronomy research analyst, organic farming advisor, agronomy science researcher, crop researcher, crop consultant, agronomy adviser, adviser for vegetable production, crop production adviser, adviser for agricultural production, crop scientist, agronomy consultant.

Professionals 81 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: soil scientist, 52%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
soil scientist 52% covered agricultural technician 46% covered soil surveying technician 41% covered crop production manager 41% covered bacteriology technician 38% covered agronomist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from agronomist, 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 agronomist 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 agronomist needs 35 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
  • apply horticultural standards and practices assisting and caring
  • manage nutrients information skills
  • pesticides natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • research improvement of crop yields information skills
  • European pesticide legislation business, administration and law
  • cultivate crops for biomass handling and moving
  • manage crop rotation handling and moving
  • irrigation systems agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • use agricultural information systems and databases information skills
  • plant propagation agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Agronomist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 agronomist’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.