Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a groom can go next

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

Grooms provide practical daily horse care to ensure the horses health, welfare and safety. They take part in exercising horses, cleaning and maintaining the stables, buildings and territory.

Also known as riding coach, stud hand, horse groom, trek assistant, jockey.

Elementary occupations 41 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: equine yard manager, 65%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
equine yard manager 65% covered farrier 54% covered livestock worker 39% covered horse breeder 27% covered fur animals breeder 21% covered groom You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from groom, 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 groom already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A groom needs 26 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
  • training equipment for riding services
  • perform farm equipment hygiene handling and moving
  • transportation vehicles for horses services
  • control livestock disease handling and moving
  • maintain the farm constructing
  • breed stock handling and moving
  • breed-specific behaviour of horses natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • clean stalls handling and moving
  • equine dental diseases agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • maintain farm equipment constructing
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Groom is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. 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 groom’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.