Where an employment agent can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an employment agent already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Employment agents work for employment services and agencies. They match job seekers with advertised job vacancies and provide advice on job search activities.
Also known as job placement officer.
Technicians and associate professionals 31 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: recruitment consultant, 64%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
An employment agent needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- promote gender equality in business contexts assisting and caring
- ensure gender equality in the workplace assisting and caring
- profile people management skills
- support employability of people with disabilities management skills
- job market offers business, administration and law
- hire human resources management skills
- maintain privacy of service users assisting and caring
- document interviews information skills
- apply knowledge of human behaviour communication, collaboration and creativity
- interview people communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an employment agent does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- recruitment consultant 81% covered · difficulty 21.8
- human resources officer 73% covered · difficulty 29.7
- human resources assistant 69% covered · difficulty 33.9
- employment and vocational integration consultant 66% covered · difficulty 36.8
- human resources manager 43% covered · difficulty 56.6
- occupational analyst 34% covered · difficulty 64
- public employment service manager 28% covered · difficulty 68.9
- talent acquisition manager 22% covered · difficulty 74.1
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Employment agent is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an employment agent’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.