Where a biologist can go next

Table 1 · Within reach

• marine biologist 76% covered · difficulty 30.7
• biophysicist 68% covered · difficulty 48.4
• aquaculture biologist 66% covered · difficulty 54.8
• microbiologist 65% covered · difficulty 53
• religion scientific researcher 57% covered · difficulty 53.6
• biology technician 56% covered · difficulty 52.3

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

• geneticist 60% covered · difficulty 58.9
• palaeontologist 58% covered · difficulty 55.4
• aquatic animal health professional 57% covered · difficulty 59.1
• immunologist 57% covered · difficulty 59.5
• toxicologist 56% covered · difficulty 59.7
• epidemiologist 55% covered · difficulty 59.7

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

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a biologist already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.