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.
Also known as crystal gazer, tarot card reader, numerologist, palm reader, mind reader, tea leaf reader.
Service and sales workers 28 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: psychic, 84%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A fortune teller needs 12 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- fortune-telling techniques arts and humanities
- occultism arts and humanities
- body language arts and humanities
- give advice on personal matters assisting and caring
- assess character management skills
- maintain privacy of service users assisting and caring
- rhetoric social sciences, journalism and information
- use consulting techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
- prospect new customers communication, collaboration and creativity
- maintain customer service communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a fortune teller does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- psychic 73% covered · difficulty 29.9
- medium 61% covered · difficulty 40.2
- astrologer 56% covered · difficulty 44.8
- life coach 48% covered · difficulty 52.2
- dating service consultant 40% covered · difficulty 57.9
- wedding planner 33% covered · difficulty 64
- recruitment consultant 29% covered · difficulty 67.1
- body artist 25% covered · difficulty 70.2
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Fortune teller is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a fortune teller’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.