Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an audiology technician can go next

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

Audiology technicians create and service hearing aids and hearing protection products. They dispense, fit and provide hearing aids for those who need them.

Also known as audiology specialist service technician, hearing aid technician, hearing aid service technician, hearing help technician, hearing aid acoustician, audiology service technician, audiology specialist technician, hearing instrument specialist, audio prosthetist, audiology assistant.

Technicians and associate professionals 31 skills on file 1 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: audiologist, 30%

Fig. 2 · Career map 1 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
audiologist 30% covered audiology technician You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 1 nearest destinations from audiology technician, 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 audiology technician already covers. All 1 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only one move is listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An audiology technician needs 11 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
  • advise customers on hearing aids communication, collaboration and creativity
  • repair hearing aids handling and moving
  • produce impressions for ear moulds handling and moving
  • order supplies for audiology services communication, collaboration and creativity
  • types of audiological equipment health and welfare
  • use of specialised instruments in otorhinolaryngology working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • maintain records of clients' prescriptions information skills
  • perform technical tasks with great care working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • maintain laboratory equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • hygiene in a health care setting services
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Audiology technician is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 audiology technician’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.