Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an archivist can go next

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

Archivists assess, collect, organise, preserve and provide access to records and archives. Records maintained are in any format, analogue or digital and include several kinds of media (documents, photographs, video and sound recordings, etc.).

Also known as cadastral archivist, archives and manuscripts librarian, land register archivist, archives researcher, digital archivist, reference archivist, archives specialist, archives record clerk, processing archivist.

Professionals 27 skills on file 6 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: file clerk, 32%

Fig. 2 · Career map 6 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
file clerk 32% covered information manager 24% covered librarian 22% covered library manager 19% covered document management officer 16% covered cultural archive manager 15% covered archivist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 6 nearest destinations from archivist, 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 archivist already covers. All 6 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An archivist needs 15 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
  • aid archive users with their enquiries assisting and caring
  • contextualise records collection communication, collaboration and creativity
  • store archival documents handling and moving
  • appraise historical documents information skills
  • manage archive users guidelines management skills
  • perform records management information skills
  • facilitate access to information information skills
  • collection management social sciences, journalism and information
  • create semantic trees information skills
  • study a collection information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Archivist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an archivist’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.