Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a family planning counsellor can go next

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

Family planning counsellors provide support and counselling to adults and adolescents on issues such as reproduction, contraceptive methods, pregnancy or termination of pregnancy, in compliance with the legislation and practices. They also provide information about maintaining optimum health practices, sexual disease prevention and treatment recommendation referrals, working in collaboration with the professional doctors.

Also known as sexual health lead, family planning advisor, reproductive health advisor, family planning social counsellor, sexual health advisor, senior sexual health advisor, pregnancy advisor, family planning counselor, family planning clinic advisor.

Professionals 53 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: drug and alcohol addiction counsellor, 83%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
social counsellor 73% covered social pedagogue 50% covered community health worker 49% covered sexual violence counsellor 83% covered drug and alcohol addiction co… 83% covered family planning counsellor You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from family planning counsellor, 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 family planning counsellor 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

A family planning counsellor needs 50 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
  • address gender-related issues in family planning counselling communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide counselling on abortion communication, collaboration and creativity
  • reproductive health health and welfare
  • advise on family planning communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide education on family life communication, collaboration and creativity
  • sex education education
  • advise on pregnancy communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain a non-emotional involvement assisting and caring
  • respond to individuals' extreme emotions assisting and caring
  • encourage counselled clients to examine themselves communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Family planning counsellor 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 a family planning counsellor’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.