Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a credit adviser can go next

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

Credit advisers offer guidance to customers related to credit services. They assess the customer's financial situation and debt issues arisen from credit cards, medical bills and car loans in order to identify optimal credit solutions for customers and also provide debt elimination plans to adjust their finances if needed. They prepare qualitative credit analyses and decision-making material in respect of defined customers in conformity with the bank's strategy on credit policy, ensure the credit quality and follow up on the performance of the credit portfolio. Credit advisers also have expertise in debt management and credit consolidation.

Also known as credit intermediary, debt counsellor, certified credit counselor, credit counselor.

Technicians and associate professionals 47 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: credit analyst, 70%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
credit analyst 70% covered mortgage loan underwriter 69% covered loan officer 59% covered mortgage broker 56% covered insurance rating analyst 56% covered credit adviser You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from credit adviser, 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 credit adviser 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 credit adviser needs 18 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
  • prepare credit offers communication, collaboration and creativity
  • assess debtor's financial situation information skills
  • analyse the credit history of potential customers information skills
  • maintain credit history of clients information skills
  • maintain client debt records information skills
  • perform debt investigation information skills
  • analyse loans information skills
  • credit control processes business, administration and law
  • insolvency law business, administration and law
  • consult credit score information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Credit adviser is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 credit adviser’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.