Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a land planner can go next

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

Land planners visit sites in order to create projects and plans for land usage and development. They collect and analyse data about the land. Land planners provide advice on the efficiency and safety of development plans.

Also known as city planner, town planner, urban planner, land use planner, land developer, city planning engineer, urban land planner, civil engineer, planning engineer, planner, land manager, planning technician.

Professionals 38 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: cadastral technician, 55%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
cadastral technician 55% covered surveying technician 48% covered land surveyor 48% covered mine surveying technician 42% covered hydrographic surveyor 40% covered land planner You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from land planner, 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 land planner already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A land planner needs 19 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
  • advise on use of land communication, collaboration and creativity
  • advise on architectural matters communication, collaboration and creativity
  • compare survey computations information skills
  • zoning codes engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • green building standards engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • process collected survey data information skills
  • urban planning law business, administration and law
  • surveying methods engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • urban planning engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • surveying engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Land planner 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 land planner’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.