Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a loan officer can go next

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

Loan officers assess and authorise the approval of loan applications for individuals and businesses. They ensure complete transactions between loan organisations, borrowers, and sellers. Loan officers are specialists in consumer, mortgage, or commercial lending.

Also known as loans adviser, loans controller, loan processor, commercial lender, loans consultant, loans agent, credit officer.

Technicians and associate professionals 39 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: foreclosure specialist, 62%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
foreclosure specialist 62% covered credit analyst 54% covered insurance rating analyst 51% covered credit adviser 50% covered bankruptcy trustee 49% covered loan officer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from loan officer, 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 loan officer 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 loan officer 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
  • inform on interest rates communication, collaboration and creativity
  • decide on loan applications management skills
  • monitor loan portfolio information skills
  • interview bank loanees communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain credit history of clients information skills
  • core banking software information and communication technologies (icts)
  • analyse loans information skills
  • credit control processes business, administration and law
  • consult credit score information skills
  • examine credit ratings information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Loan officer is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 loan officer’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.