Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a customs officer can go next

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

Customs officers combat the importation of illegal goods, firearms, drugs or other dangerous or illegal items while checking the legality of items brought across national borders. They are government officials who control the documents to ensure entry criteria and custom laws are complied with and control if the custom taxes are paid correctly.

Also known as customs and excise officer, border guard, customs & excise officer, governmental customs agent, detection officer, customs inspector, border force officer, customs and excise duty officer, customs control agent, customs control officer.

Technicians and associate professionals 18 skills on file 3 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: licensing officer, 23%

Fig. 2 · Career map 3 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
licensing officer 23% covered passport officer 22% covered civil registrar 17% covered customs officer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 3 nearest destinations from customs 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 customs officer already covers. All 3 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 3 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A customs officer needs 8 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • prevent smuggling assisting and caring
  • advise on customs regulations communication, collaboration and creativity
  • customs law business, administration and law
  • keep up-to-date to current customs regulations information skills
  • advise on licencing procedures communication, collaboration and creativity
  • licences regulation services
  • manage import export licenses information skills
  • check official documents assisting and caring
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Customs officer 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 customs 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.