Where a notary can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a notary already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Notaries ensure the authenticity and legitimacy of official documents such as declarations, certificates, contracts, deeds and purchases. They examine the documents, witness the signing and authenticate them. They administer oaths and affirmations and perform other acts of notarisation.
Also known as common law notary, public notary, notarial officer, civil law notary, law signing agent, notary signing agent.
Professionals 43 skills on file 12 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: conveyance clerk, 64%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- legal assistant 37% covered · difficulty 59
- justice of the peace 36% covered · difficulty 61.1
- legal consultant 34% covered · difficulty 61.9
- legal administrative assistant 34% covered · difficulty 61.2
- judge 30% covered · difficulty 68.1
- intellectual property consultant 27% covered · difficulty 66.8
- mediator 26% covered · difficulty 72.1
- title closer 25% covered · difficulty 69.5
- court enforcement officer 24% covered · difficulty 70.3
- supreme court judge 23% covered · difficulty 72.2
- prosecutor 23% covered · difficulty 71.3
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A notary needs 15 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- administer oaths management skills
- take affidavits information skills
- witness the signing of documents information skills
- authenticate documents assisting and caring
- issue official documents assisting and caring
- law of non-marital cohabitation business, administration and law
- advise on legal services communication, collaboration and creativity
- private law business, administration and law
- constitutional law business, administration and law
- interpret law communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a notary does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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Notary is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 notary’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.