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Where a legislative drafter can go next

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

Legislative drafters research pieces of legislations and edit them in order to make them stronger and more clear. Rarely they also add new ideas which have never been incorporated into a law or a bill before.

Also known as researcher, parliamentary drafter, parliamentary draughtsman, parliamentary draftsman, parliamentary draftsperson, parliamentary councel.

Professionals 20 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: senator, 19%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
senator 19% covered humanitarian advisor 19% covered programme funding manager 18% covered member of parliament 17% covered legal policy officer 17% covered legislative drafter You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from legislative drafter, 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 legislative drafter already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A legislative drafter needs 10 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • draft legislation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • analyse legislation information skills
  • structure information information skills
  • constitutional law business, administration and law
  • legislation procedure business, administration and law
  • public law business, administration and law
  • provide legal advice communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide written content communication, collaboration and creativity
  • legal research business, administration and law
  • use communication techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Legislative drafter 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 legislative drafter’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.