Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a kinesiologist can go next

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

Kinesiologists study and research the movement of the body; its muscles and parts. They analyse and use scientific data and methods to improve body motion, generally in humans, through an understanding of such areas as physiology, kinetics, neurology, and biology. They recognise the effects that some factors, such as body condition, have on motion and develop solutions to improve overall mechanics and mobility.

Also known as biomechanical kinesiologist, exercise researcher, kinesiology science researcher, exercise kinesiologist, kinesiology researcher, exercise research scientist, psychomotor kinesiologist, kinesiology research scientist, exercise scientist, kinesiologists, exercise science researcher, kinesiology scientist.

Professionals 80 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: physiologist, 80%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
physiologist 80% covered religion scientific researcher 75% covered thanatology researcher 74% covered palaeontologist 72% covered astronomer 70% covered kinesiologist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from kinesiologist, 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 kinesiologist 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 kinesiologist needs 49 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
  • kinanthropometry health and welfare
  • kinesiology health and welfare
  • nutrition health and welfare
  • biomechanics natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • kinetics health and welfare
  • assess physical conditions of clients information skills
  • correct potentially harmful movements assisting and caring
  • scientific modelling information and communication technologies (icts)
  • neurology health and welfare
  • maintain laboratory equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Kinesiologist 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 kinesiologist’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.