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Where an official veterinarian can go next

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

Official veterinarians are professionals with a comprehensive scientific education. They have the authority to carry out, in an independent, ethical and personally responsible capacity all veterinary activities with particular focus on the health and welfare of animals and public health in accordance with national and international legislation. They are responsible for national animal disease eradication programmes, the protection of public health and food or animal inspection, animal movements, and import and export of live animals and their products.

Also known as government veterinary officer, veterinary inspector, state vet, official vet, public health veterinarian, government vet.

Professionals 52 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: animal welfare inspector, 71%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
animal welfare inspector 71% covered animal osteopath 70% covered animal physiotherapist 69% covered animal chiropractor 69% covered animal massage therapist 68% covered official veterinarian You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from official veterinarian, 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 an official veterinarian 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

An official veterinarian needs 35 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
  • comply with veterinary inspection standards assisting and caring
  • follow environmentally sustainable work practices in the veterinary sector assisting and caring
  • perform inspections of food-processing plants information skills
  • regulate animal health standards assisting and caring
  • develop zoonotic disease control policies management skills
  • advise on livestock disease control communication, collaboration and creativity
  • apply veterinary epidemiology handling and moving
  • certify the performance of veterinary procedures information skills
  • conduct ante-mortem veterinary health inspection handling and moving
  • issue certificates for animal products assisting and caring
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Official veterinarian 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 an official veterinarian’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.