Where an au pair can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an au pair already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Au pairs live and work for a host family in another country and are usually in charge of taking care of the family's children. They are young individuals, seeking to explore another culture while providing child care services as well as other light housekeeping activities such as cleaning, gardening and shopping.
Also known as childminder, baby sitter, child caretaker.
Service and sales workers 34 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: child care worker, 74%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
An au pair needs 13 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- assist children with homework assisting and caring
- play with children assisting and caring
- entertain people communication, collaboration and creativity
- prepare sandwiches assisting and caring
- supervise children assisting and caring
- assist children in developing personal skills assisting and caring
- attend to children's basic physical needs assisting and caring
- workplace sanitation services
- promote human rights communication, collaboration and creativity
- maintain relations with children's parents communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an au pair does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- babysitter 77% covered · difficulty 24.2
- child care worker 68% covered · difficulty 33
- domestic housekeeper 43% covered · difficulty 55.2
- legal guardian 33% covered · difficulty 63.6
- child care coordinator 28% covered · difficulty 68.4
- companion 24% covered · difficulty 70.4
- home care aide 22% covered · difficulty 71.8
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Au pair is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an au pair’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.