Where a chemistry lecturer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a chemistry lecturer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Chemistry lecturers are subject professors, teachers, or lecturers who instruct students who have obtained an upper secondary education diploma in their own specialised field of study, chemistry, which is predominantly academic in nature. They work with their university research assistants and university teaching assistants for the preparation of lectures and of exams, for leading laboratory practices, grading papers and for leading review and feedback sessions for the students. They also conduct academic research in their field of chemistry, publish their findings and liaise with other university colleagues.
Also known as chemistry docent, chemistry professor, lecturer in chemistry, chemical science docent, specialist lecturer in chemistry, higher education chemistry teacher, university lecturer in chemistry, chemistry lector, university chemistry lecturer, chemical science instructor, professor of chemistry, university chemistry teacher.
Professionals 91 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: architecture lecturer, 80%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A chemistry lecturer needs 35 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- teach chemistry communication, collaboration and creativity
- spectroscopy engineering, manufacturing and construction
- green chemistry engineering, manufacturing and construction
- computational chemistry natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- analyse experimental laboratory data information skills
- manage chemical testing procedures information skills
- chemical processes engineering, manufacturing and construction
- compile course material communication, collaboration and creativity
- laboratory techniques natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- liaise with educational staff communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a chemistry lecturer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- pharmacy lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 33.6
- medicine lecturer 79% covered · difficulty 34.9
- communications lecturer 78% covered · difficulty 35.8
- economics lecturer 78% covered · difficulty 35.8
- engineering lecturer 78% covered · difficulty 35.8
- mathematics lecturer 78% covered · difficulty 35.8
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Chemistry lecturer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a chemistry lecturer’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.