Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a chaplain can go next

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

Chaplains perform religious activities in secular institutions. They perform counselling services and provide spiritual and emotional support to the people in the institution, as well as cooperate with priests or other religious officials to support religious activities in the community.

Also known as university chaplain, lay representative, imam, military chaplain, hospital chaplain, rabbi, prison chaplain.

Professionals 31 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: pastoral worker, 64%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
pastoral worker 64% covered minister of religion 46% covered missionary 42% covered monk/nun 36% covered verger 36% covered chaplain You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from chaplain, 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 chaplain 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 chaplain needs 10 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • provide charity services management skills
  • provide spiritual counselling assisting and caring
  • reinforce positive behaviour communication, collaboration and creativity
  • interpret religious texts communication, collaboration and creativity
  • perform religious ceremonies communication, collaboration and creativity
  • promote religious activities communication, collaboration and creativity
  • psychological counselling methods social sciences, journalism and information
  • provide social counselling assisting and caring
  • observe confidentiality assisting and caring
  • respond to enquiries assisting and caring
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Chaplain is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 chaplain’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.