Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an equine worker can go next

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

Equine workers provide caring activities for horses and ponies.

Also known as horse worker, equine technician, horse and pony technician, horse and pony worker.

Elementary occupations 32 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: groom, 70%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
groom 70% covered equine yard manager 56% covered farrier 47% covered livestock worker 30% covered horse breeder 16% covered equine worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from equine 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 equine 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 equine worker needs 14 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
  • clean horse's legs handling and moving
  • maintain the farm constructing
  • breed-specific behaviour of horses natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • clean stalls handling and moving
  • maintain pastures handling and moving
  • teach young horses handling and moving
  • young horses training agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • provide care for horses handling and moving
  • assist animal birth handling and moving
  • biosecurity health and welfare
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Equine worker is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. 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 equine 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.