Where a juvenile correctional officer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a juvenile correctional officer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Juvenile correctional officers monitor and provide security to juvenile offenders. They ensure the safety of the facility compliant with rules and regulations, compile reports on the daily activities as well as in the case of incidents, and report unusual activity. They also supervise rehabilitation procedures of the offenders.
Also known as youth correctional officer, young offenders officer, detention centre youth worker, youth detention counselor, correctional youth security officer, youth detention worker, detention officer, juvenile corrections officer, juvenile detention officer, young offenders detention officer.
Service and sales workers 26 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: prison officer, 83%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A juvenile correctional officer needs 13 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- escort defendants assisting and caring
- oversee rehabilitation process management skills
- correctional procedures services
- screen clients assisting and caring
- illegal substances services
- restrain individuals assisting and caring
- legal use-of-force business, administration and law
- patrol areas assisting and caring
- law enforcement services
- undertake inspections information skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a juvenile correctional officer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- prison instructor 61% covered · difficulty 36.8
- court bailiff 54% covered · difficulty 43
- police officer 54% covered · difficulty 43.2
- civil enforcement officer 44% covered · difficulty 51.3
- police inspector 42% covered · difficulty 53
- security guard 41% covered · difficulty 54.4
- correctional services manager 40% covered · difficulty 54.4
- street warden 39% covered · difficulty 56
- immigration officer 33% covered · difficulty 60.6
- probation officer 33% covered · difficulty 60.8
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Juvenile correctional officer is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a juvenile correctional officer’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.