Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a conservation scientist can go next

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

Conservation scientists manage the quality of specific forests, parks and other natural resources. They protect the wildlife habitat, biodiversity, scenic value, and other unique attributes of preserves and conservation lands. Conservation scientists perform field work.

Also known as wildlife biologist, environmental scientist, park naturalist, park ranger, conservationist, conservation programs specialist.

Professionals 74 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: palaeontologist, 69%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
palaeontologist 69% covered religion scientific researcher 69% covered ecologist 66% covered philosopher 65% covered thanatology researcher 65% covered conservation scientist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from conservation scientist, 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 conservation scientist 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 conservation scientist needs 52 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
  • measure trees information skills
  • educate the public about wildlife communication, collaboration and creativity
  • identify plants characteristics handling and moving
  • sustainable forest management agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • use ICT resources to solve work related tasks working with computers
  • advise on nature conservation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • educate people about nature communication, collaboration and creativity
  • animal species natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • reforestation agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • ecosystem management business, administration and law
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a conservation scientist’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.