Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a forest worker can go next

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

Forest workers carry out a variety of jobs to care for and manage trees, woodland areas and forests. Their activities include planting, trimming, thinning and felling trees and protecting them from pests, diseases and damage.

Also known as woodland assistant, silviculture worker, woodland worker, forestry assistant, forestry worker.

Elementary occupations 36 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: tree surgeon, 42%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
tree surgeon 42% covered arboriculturist 37% covered forest ranger 35% covered forestry technician 31% covered landscape gardener 20% covered forest worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from forest 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 a forest worker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A forest worker needs 26 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
  • assist forest survey crew communication, collaboration and creativity
  • plant trees handling and moving
  • maintain the trails handling and moving
  • put up signs handling and moving
  • carry out aerial tree rigging constructing
  • control tree diseases handling and moving
  • build fences constructing
  • operate forestry equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • perform tree thinning handling and moving
  • safeguard biodiversity assisting and caring
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Forest worker is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. 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 forest 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.