Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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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.

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

seismologist 80% covered demographer 80% covered palaeontologist 78% covered oceanographer 77% covered religion scientific researcher 75% covered geographer You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from geographer. 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.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Index

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geographer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a geographer 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.