Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a pesticides sprayer can go next

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

Pesticides sprayers mix pesticides, insecticides, fungicides, and other chemical solutions, and apply them via technical equipment such as sprayers on trees, plants and lawns. They clean and maintain operating machinery and ensure the overall safety in designated areas.

Also known as spray technician, trees sprayer, pesticides applicator, lawn care chemical applicator, sprayer of pesticides.

Craft and related trades workers 43 skills on file 4 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: pest management worker, 44%

Fig. 2 · Career map 4 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
pest management worker 44% covered landscape gardener 21% covered groundsman/groundswoman 19% covered garden labourer 17% covered pesticides sprayer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 4 nearest destinations from pesticides sprayer, 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 pesticides sprayer already covers. All 4 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 4 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A pesticides sprayer needs 26 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 safety inspections on spraying equipment information skills
  • pesticides sprayers engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • manage pest and weed control handling and moving
  • phytosanitary measures natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • safe use of pesticides agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • herbicides natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • herbicides sprayers natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • plant care products agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • pesticides natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • European pesticide legislation business, administration and law
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Pesticides sprayer is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. 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 pesticides sprayer’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.