Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a nanny can go next

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

Nannies provide qualified care services to children on the premises of the employer. They organise play activities and entertain children with games and other cultural and educative activities according to their respective age, prepare meals, give them bathes, transport them from and to school and assist them with homework on a punctual basis.

Also known as au pair, dry nurse, live-in baby sitter, nursemaid, duenna, mother's helper, private child care provider, live-in caregiver, governess.

Service and sales workers 36 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: child care worker, 74%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
child care worker 74% covered companion 45% covered early years teaching assistant 39% covered special educational needs ass… 32% covered primary school teaching assis… 32% covered nanny You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from nanny, 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 nanny 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 nanny 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
  • assist children with homework assisting and caring
  • play with children assisting and caring
  • supervise children assisting and caring
  • common children's diseases health and welfare
  • assist children in developing personal skills assisting and caring
  • attend to children's basic physical needs assisting and caring
  • workplace sanitation services
  • handle children's problems assisting and caring
  • clean surfaces handling and moving
  • promote human rights communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Nanny is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a nanny’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.