Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a game keeper can go next

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

Game keepers manage the habitat and wild game population in a defined area.

Also known as gamekeeper, game warden, estate supervisor.

Service and sales workers 18 skills on file 1 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: hunter, 20%

Fig. 2 · Career map 1 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
hunter 20% covered game keeper You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 1 nearest destinations from game keeper, 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 game keeper already covers. All 1 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only one move is listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A game keeper 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.

Required skill Area
  • control the production of game meat for human consumption management skills
  • maintain game equipment constructing
  • manage habitats to benefit game management skills
  • organise game shoots handling and moving
  • protect game assisting and caring
  • rear game handling and moving
  • remove predators handling and moving
  • manage game management plans management skills
  • understand game species natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • wild game meat food safety requirements services
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Game keeper is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a game keeper’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.