Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a house sitter can go next

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

House sitters move in the house of their employers in order to maintain security of the property during their absence. They monitor entrance areas and prevent unauthorized persons from entering the house, inspect conditions of the facility such as plumbing and heating and contact repairers if necessary. House sitters may also do some cleaning activities, forward mail and pay bills.

Also known as custodian, house caretaker, estate caretaker.

Service and sales workers 26 skills on file 3 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: building caretaker, 30%

Fig. 2 · Career map 3 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
building caretaker 30% covered kennel worker 24% covered companion 17% covered house sitter You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 3 nearest destinations from house sitter, 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 house sitter already covers. All 3 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 3 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A house sitter needs 8 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • ensure private property security assisting and caring
  • collect mail management skills
  • monitor building security information skills
  • register information on arrivals and departures information skills
  • disseminate messages to people management skills
  • promote human rights communication, collaboration and creativity
  • follow verbal instructions communication, collaboration and creativity
  • follow written instructions communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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House sitter is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. 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 house sitter’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.