Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a historian can go next

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

Historians research, analyze, interpret, and present the past of human societies. They analyse documents, sources, and traces from the past in order to understand the past societies.

Also known as diplomatic historian, economic historian, historians, political historian, military historian, egyptologist, art historian.

Professionals 74 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: religion scientific researcher, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
religion scientific researcher 77% covered archaeologist 74% covered philosopher 73% covered thanatology researcher 72% covered anthropologist 72% covered historian You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from historian, 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 historian 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 historian needs 38 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
  • analyse recorded sources information skills
  • historical methods arts and humanities
  • periodisation arts and humanities
  • source criticism social sciences, journalism and information
  • do historical research information skills
  • history arts and humanities
  • consult information sources information skills
  • apply scientific methods information skills
  • manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data information skills
  • think abstractly communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Historian 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 historian’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.