Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a geographer can go next

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

Geographers are scholars who study human and physical geography. Depending on their specialisation, they study political, economical and cultural aspects of humanity contained within human geography. Moreover, they study land formations, soils, natural frontiers, and water flows contained in physical geography.

Also known as economic geographer, geographers, biogeographer, cultural geographer, physical geographer, natural geographer, human geographer, geography research scientist.

Professionals 73 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: seismologist, 80%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
seismologist 80% covered demographer 80% covered palaeontologist 78% covered oceanographer 77% covered religion scientific researcher 75% covered geographer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from geographer, 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 geographer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A geographer needs 41 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
  • find trends in geographic data information skills
  • cultural geography natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • collect data using GPS information skills
  • scientific modelling information and communication technologies (icts)
  • conduct public surveys information skills
  • geography natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • geographic information systems natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • use geographic information systems working with computers
  • apply statistical analysis techniques information skills
  • apply scientific methods information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Geographer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 geographer’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.