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Where a child care worker can go next

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

Child care workers provide care for children when the parents or family members are unavailable. They look after the children's basic needs and help or supervise them during play. Child care workers can work for preschools, daycare centres, childcare agencies or individual families.

Also known as nursery school worker, nursery school assistant, early childhood worker, child care assistant, day care assistant, preschool teacher, early childhood assistant, preschool worker, day care worker.

Service and sales workers 30 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: nanny, 72%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1

70% and above · short step
50 to 70% · real move
Below 50% · substantial retraining

The 5 nearest destinations from child care worker, 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 child care worker 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 child care worker needs 10 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area

play with children assisting and caring
determine child welfare assisting and caring
supervise children assisting and caring
social development health and welfare
assist children in developing personal skills assisting and caring
attend to children's basic physical needs assisting and caring
workplace sanitation services
maintain relations with children's parents communication, collaboration and creativity
communicate with youth communication, collaboration and creativity
handle chemical cleaning agents handling and moving

Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Child care worker 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 child care worker’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.