Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an emergency response worker can go next

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

Emergency response workers work in missions to aid in emergency and disaster situations, such as natural disasters or oil spills. They clean up the debris or waste caused by the event, ensure the people involved are brought to safety, prevent further damage, and transport goods such as food and medical supplies.

Also known as first responder, emergency response team worker, emergency response mission worker, clean up worker, aid worker, incident response worker, environmental emergency worker, first response worker, emergency worker, natural emergency response worker, disaster relief worker.

Service and sales workers 33 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: emergency response coordinator, 39%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
emergency response coordinator 39% covered sorter labourer 26% covered coastguard watch officer 23% covered asbestos abatement worker 21% covered recycling worker 21% covered emergency response worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from emergency response worker, 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 emergency response worker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An emergency response worker needs 13 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
  • provide emergency supplies management skills
  • evacuate people from flooded areas assisting and caring
  • perform environmental remediation assisting and caring
  • remove debris handling and moving
  • treat flood damage communication, collaboration and creativity
  • clean up spilled oil handling and moving
  • coordinate with other emergency services communication, collaboration and creativity
  • evacuate people from buildings assisting and caring
  • flood remediation equipment services
  • operational tactics for emergency responses health and welfare
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an emergency response worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Emergency response worker is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. 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 an emergency response worker’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.