Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a linguist can go next

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

Linguists study languages scientifically. They master languages and can interpret them in terms of their grammatical, semantic, and phonetic characteristics. They research the evolution of language and the way it is used by societies.

Also known as americanist, latinist, linguists, linguistic research scientist, slavist, linguistic scholar, tibetologist, africanist, linguistic researcher, germanist, arabist, anglist.

Professionals 70 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: religion scientific researcher, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
religion scientific researcher 77% covered literary scholar 73% covered thanatology researcher 73% covered philosopher 71% covered communication scientist 69% covered linguist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from linguist, 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 linguist 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 linguist needs 37 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
  • study acquisition of language information skills
  • phonetics arts and humanities
  • semantics arts and humanities
  • linguistics arts and humanities
  • spelling arts and humanities
  • grammar arts and humanities
  • apply scientific methods information skills
  • manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data information skills
  • think abstractly communication, collaboration and creativity
  • communicate with a non-scientific audience communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Linguist 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 linguist’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.