Career Overlap Occupation record
RecordJob

Where a babysitter can go next

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

Babysitters provide short-term care services to children on the premises of the employer, depending on the employer's needs. They organise play activities and entertain children with games and other cultural and educative activities according to their respective age, prepare meals, give them bathes, transport them from and to school and assist them with homework on a punctual basis.

Also known as baby-sitter, childminder.

Service and sales workers 29 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: nanny, 82%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
child care worker 78% covered au pair 77% covered nanny 82% covered companion 39% covered early years teaching assistant 31% covered babysitter You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from babysitter, 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 a babysitter 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

A babysitter needs 10 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • babysitting health and welfare
  • assist children with homework assisting and caring
  • play with children assisting and caring
  • prepare ready-made dishes assisting and caring
  • prepare sandwiches assisting and caring
  • supervise children assisting and caring
  • attend to children's basic physical needs assisting and caring
  • workplace sanitation services
  • maintain relations with children's parents communication, collaboration and creativity
  • communicate with youth communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Babysitter is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. 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 a babysitter’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.