Where a medical laboratory assistant can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a medical laboratory assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Medical laboratory assistants work under supervision of the biomedical scientist and carry out basic laboratory procedures. They work in the pre-analytical handling of samples such as checking the details of specimens received for analysis, maintaining analysers, loading reagents, and packaging specimens. They also perform clerical tasks such as monitoring the stock levels of reagents used in analysis.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 80%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 1difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 72required or supplementary
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- bacteriology technician 38% covered · difficulty 63.8
- biochemistry technician 37% covered · difficulty 67.2
- medical laboratory manager 34% covered · difficulty 67.5
- biology technician 33% covered · difficulty 70.4
- phlebotomist 30% covered · difficulty 72
- cytotechnologist 29% covered · difficulty 78.6
- zoology technician 28% covered · difficulty 71.9
- chromatographer 24% covered · difficulty 80.5
- biomedical scientist 23% covered · difficulty 86.3
- chemistry technician 22% covered · difficulty 81.9
- biomedical scientist advanced 21% covered · difficulty 82.6
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medical laboratory assistant is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a medical laboratory assistant already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.