Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a minister of religion can go next

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

Ministers of religion lead religious organisations or communities, perform spiritual and religious ceremonies and provide spiritual guidance to members of a particular religious group. They may undertake missionary work, pastoral or preaching work, or work within a religious order or community, such as a monastery or convent. Ministers of religion perform duties such as leading worship services, giving religious education, officiating at funerals and marriages, counselling congregation members and offer a range of other community services, both in conjunction with the organisation they work for, and through their own personal day to day activities.

Also known as monk, nun, minister of the church, pastor, priest, deacon, religious minister, church minister, ordained clergyman, member of the clergy, spiritual leader, bishop.

Professionals 64 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: missionary, 78%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
missionary 78% covered monk/nun 63% covered verger 50% covered lottery manager 23% covered youth programme director 20% covered minister of religion You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from minister of religion, 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 minister of religion already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A minister of religion needs 18 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
  • perform religious rituals communication, collaboration and creativity
  • supervise religious organisations management skills
  • canon law business, administration and law
  • represent religious institution communication, collaboration and creativity
  • foster dialogue in society communication, collaboration and creativity
  • engage in debates communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide spiritual counselling assisting and caring
  • interpret religious texts communication, collaboration and creativity
  • perform religious ceremonies communication, collaboration and creativity
  • prepare religious services communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Minister of religion 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 minister of religion’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.