Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a palaeontologist can go next

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

Palaeontologists research and analyse forms of life that existed in ancient eras of the planet Earth. They strive to define the evolutionary path and the interaction with different geological areas of all kinds of once organisms and such plants, pollen and spores, invertebrate and vertebrate animals, humans, traces such as footprints, and ecology and climate.

Professionals 66 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: seismologist, 79%

seismologist 79% covered oceanographer 79% covered religion scientific researcher 75% covered astronomer 75% covered geographer 73% covered palaeontologist You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from palaeontologist. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a palaeontologist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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palaeontologist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a palaeontologist already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.