Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a heating, ventilation, air conditioning engineer can go next

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

Heating, ventilation, air conditioning engineers design and develop heating, ventilation, air conditioning and possibly refrigeration systems for usage in residences, manufacturing sites, offices, commercial buildings, etc. They strive for solutions that serve the needs of clients and respond to architectural restrictions of sites.

Professionals 72 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: agricultural engineer, 59%

agricultural engineer 59% covered heating, ventilation, air con… 55% covered steam engineer 54% covered thermal engineer 53% covered robotics engineer 51% covered heating, ventilation, air… You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from heating, ventilation, air conditioning engineer. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a heating, ventilation, air conditioning engineer 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 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

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heating, ventilation, air conditioning engineer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a heating, ventilation, air conditioning engineer 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.