Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a countryside officer can go next

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

Countryside officers are responsible for a range of activities that manage and maintain the natural environment and associated public access and recreation. They encourage visitors to open spaces/the countryside, promote awareness of the natural environment and protect and preserve the open space/countryside for future enjoyment.

Also known as park ranger, natural areas maintenance team leader, rural areas officer, countryside officers.

Professionals 48 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: groundsman/groundswoman, 29%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
groundsman/groundswoman 29% covered landscape gardener 28% covered interior landscaper 27% covered garden labourer 27% covered forest worker 25% covered countryside officer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from countryside officer, 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 countryside officer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A countryside officer needs 31 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
  • develop natural areas works programmes management skills
  • estimate costs in farm information skills
  • lead a team in forestry services management skills
  • manage waste rock handling and moving
  • operate turf management equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • build fences constructing
  • build garden masonry constructing
  • minimize risks in tree operations information skills
  • operate horticulture equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • natural areas maintenance natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Countryside officer 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 countryside officer’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.