Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a migrant social worker can go next

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

Migrant social workers provide advice to migrants in order to guide them through the necessary steps of integration, namely living and working in a foreign country. They explain eligibility criteria, rights, and duties. They help migrants in the development and maintenance of their information as clients for further referral to day care, social services and employment programs. Migrant social workers collaborate with employers and inform them of the available migrant services, advocating for migrant clients.

Also known as social worker, cultural mediator social worker, asylum advice worker, migrant re-settlement worker, immigrant advice worker, immigration support worker, asylum support worker, refugee social worker, migrant advice worker, migrant advice and support worker, immigration social worker.

Professionals 72 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: education welfare officer, 76%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
education welfare officer 76% covered residential home young people… 73% covered mental health support worker 72% covered social worker 71% covered residential childcare worker 70% covered migrant social worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from migrant social 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 migrant social worker 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 migrant social worker needs 70 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
  • migration health and welfare
  • support migrants to integrate in the receiving country assisting and caring
  • provide immigration advice communication, collaboration and creativity
  • immigration law business, administration and law
  • apply anti-oppressive practices assisting and caring
  • apply case management communication, collaboration and creativity
  • make legislation transparent for users of social services communication, collaboration and creativity
  • negotiate with social service stakeholders communication, collaboration and creativity
  • negotiate with social service users communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide support to social services users assisting and caring
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Migrant social worker 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 migrant social 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.