Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a hunter can go next

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

Hunters track and pursue animals with the intention of trapping or killing them. They hunt animals for the purpose of gaining food and other animal products, recreation, trade or wildlife management. Hunters specialise in the skill of tracking down and shooting animals with weapons such as rifles and bows. They also use devices to trap animals for similar purposes.

Also known as deer stalker, wildlife manager, animal hunter, deer hunter, trapper, fur trapper, pelt trapper, game trapper, wildlife culler, animal trapper.

Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 30 skills on file 1 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: game keeper, 29%

Fig. 2 · Career map 1 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
game keeper 29% covered hunter You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 1 nearest destinations from hunter, 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 hunter already covers. All 1 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only one move is 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 hunter needs 15 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
  • hunt animals handling and moving
  • trap animals handling and moving
  • European firearms-control legislation business, administration and law
  • manage game management plans management skills
  • understand game species natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • wild game meat food safety requirements services
  • acquire licences for the use of weapons information skills
  • comply with wildlife hazard management programmes assisting and caring
  • monitor wildlife information skills
  • animal hunting agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Hunter is filed under Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers, ISCO major group 6. 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 hunter’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.