Where a land surveyor can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a land surveyor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Land surveyors determine, by means of specialised equipment, the distances and positions of points at the surface of sites for construction purposes. They use measurements of the specific aspects of construction sites, such as electricity, distance measurements, and metal structure volumes to create architectural drawings and develop construction projects.
Also known as surveyor, surveying engineer, surveyors, geomatics surveyor.
Professionals 53 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: hydrographic surveyor, 80%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A land surveyor needs 27 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- determine property boundaries information skills
- adjust surveying equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
- compare survey computations information skills
- document survey operations information skills
- geomatics natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- prepare surveying report information skills
- geodesy natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- perform surveying calculations information skills
- surveying methods engineering, manufacturing and construction
- operate surveying instruments working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a land surveyor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- hydrographic surveyor 61% covered · difficulty 47.4
- civil engineer 56% covered · difficulty 53.2
- hydrographic surveying technician 52% covered · difficulty 56.3
- land planner 48% covered · difficulty 59.9
- soil surveying technician 44% covered · difficulty 63.4
- geological engineer 41% covered · difficulty 65.8
- cadastral technician 28% covered · difficulty 75.5
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Land surveyor is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 land surveyor’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.