Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a bodyguard can go next

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

Bodyguards offer protection to their clients against injury, attacks and harassment. They accompany individuals such as politicians and actors to various events and gatherings. Bodyguards observe the surrounding environment, anticipate threats and respond to security emergencies. They may carry and use guns.

Also known as personal safety specialist, close protection officer, personal security worker, protection officer, personal protection officer, personal safety worker.

Service and sales workers 46 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: security guard, 63%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
security guard 63% covered hand luggage inspector 55% covered door supervisor 54% covered gate guard 53% covered store detective 51% covered bodyguard You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from bodyguard, 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 bodyguard already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A bodyguard needs 24 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
  • secure premises information skills
  • check subjects information skills
  • identify suspicious behaviour assisting and caring
  • protect important clients assisting and caring
  • execute inspection walkway assisting and caring
  • perform body searches assisting and caring
  • body language arts and humanities
  • check methods social sciences, journalism and information
  • perform security checks assisting and caring
  • control crowd assisting and caring
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Bodyguard 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 bodyguard’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.