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Where a fortune teller can go next

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

Fortune tellers use their intuition and other skills to foretell future events about a person's life and provide clients with their interpretation. They often use various techniques such as card reading, palm reading or tea-leaves reading.

Service and sales workers 28 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: psychic, 84%

Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from fortune teller. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a fortune teller 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

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

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fortune teller is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. 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 fortune teller 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.