Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a livestock worker can go next

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

Livestock workers maintain the health and welfare of animals. They oversee the breeding/production and day-to-day care such as feeding and watering of animals.

Also known as husbandry worker, stockman, farm animal worker, animal husbandry worker, stable worker.

Elementary occupations 51 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: groom, 40%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
groom 40% covered shepherd 38% covered equine worker 32% covered mixed farmer 26% covered equine yard manager 26% covered livestock worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from livestock worker, 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 livestock worker 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 livestock worker needs 16 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
  • breed rabbits handling and moving
  • perform farm equipment hygiene handling and moving
  • recycle livestock manure handling and moving
  • control livestock disease handling and moving
  • maintain the farm constructing
  • breed stock handling and moving
  • maintain farm equipment constructing
  • maintain pastures handling and moving
  • livestock feeding agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • manage the health and welfare of livestock handling and moving
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Livestock worker is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a livestock worker’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.