Where a medium can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a medium already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Mediums act as communicators between the natural world and the spiritual world. They convey statements or images which they claim have been provided by spirits and that can have significant personal and often private meanings to their client.
Also known as channeller, occultist, spiritist, necromancer, spiritualist.
Service and sales workers 25 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: psychic, 72%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A medium needs 12 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- use séance tools communication, collaboration and creativity
- spiritualism arts and humanities
- occultism arts and humanities
- counsel clients communication, collaboration and creativity
- maintain privacy of service users assisting and caring
- rhetoric social sciences, journalism and information
- use consulting techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
- prospect new customers communication, collaboration and creativity
- maintain customer service communication, collaboration and creativity
- listen actively communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a medium does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- fortune teller 65% covered · difficulty 35
- psychic 63% covered · difficulty 36.8
- life coach 55% covered · difficulty 44.9
- astrologer 41% covered · difficulty 55.8
- dating service consultant 39% covered · difficulty 57.5
- body artist 27% covered · difficulty 67.4
- assessor of prior learning 22% covered · difficulty 70.8
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Medium is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a medium’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.