Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a biologist can go next

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

Biologists study living organisms and life in its broader extent in combination with its environment. Through research, they strive to explain the functional mechanisms, interactions, and evolution of organisms.

Also known as ornithologist, herpetologist, mycologist, zoologist, entomologist, natural science taxonomist, plant pathologist, biology research scientist, wildlife biologist, mammalogist, biology science researcher, biology biotechnologist.

Professionals 98 skills on file 12 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: marine biologist, 76%

Fig. 2 · Career map 6 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
marine biologist 76% covered biophysicist 68% covered aquaculture biologist 66% covered microbiologist 65% covered geneticist 60% covered palaeontologist 58% covered biologist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 6 nearest destinations from biologist, 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 biologist already covers. All 12 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 biologist needs 38 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
  • conduct research on flora information skills
  • send samples to laboratory handling and moving
  • conduct research on fauna information skills
  • ecosystem management business, administration and law
  • virology health and welfare
  • collect biological data information skills
  • molecular biology natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • life sciences natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • botany natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • gather experimental data information skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Biologist 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 a biologist’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.