Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an ecologist can go next

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

Ecologists carry out assessments of the health and distribution of organisms, namely people, plants, and animals, and the relationship between organisms and their environment. Ecologists usually have a specialisation area, e.g. freshwater, marine, terrestrial, fauna, and flora about which they conduct research and perform related tasks.

Also known as environmental scientist, conservationist scientist, aquaculture ecologist, ecologists, wildlife ecologist, conservationist ecologist.

Professionals 92 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: conservation scientist, 70%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
conservation scientist 70% covered religion scientific researcher 69% covered hydrologist 68% covered palaeontologist 67% covered philosopher 65% covered ecologist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from ecologist, 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 an ecologist 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

An ecologist needs 45 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
  • employ habitat survey techniques information skills
  • manage habitats assisting and caring
  • measure trees information skills
  • organism taxonomy natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • analyse ecological data information skills
  • conduct ecological surveys information skills
  • identify plants characteristics handling and moving
  • conduct ecological research information skills
  • agroecology 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 an ecologist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Ecologist 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 an ecologist’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.