Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a food technologist can go next

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

Food technologists develop processes for manufacturing foodstuffs and related products based on chemical, physical, and biological principles and technology. They design and plan layouts or equipment, oversee staff, engage in controlling, and improve food technologies in food production processes.

Professionals 139 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: food grader, 79%

food grader 79% covered food technician 75% covered prepared meals nutritionist 66% covered food analyst 65% covered food production engineer 65% covered food technologist You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from food technologist. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a food technologist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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food technologist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a food technologist already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.