Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a pharmacist can go next

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

Pharmacists prepare, dispense, and provide prescriptions for, over the counter medication. They offer clinical information on medicines, report suspected adverse reactions, and provide personalised support to patients. Pharmacists formulate and test medications in laboratories, and store, preserve, and distribute them.

Also known as practitioner of pharmacy, pharmacologist, pharmacology practitioner, dispensing chemist, retail pharmacist, practitioner of pharmacology, pharmacy practitioner.

Professionals 86 skills on file 12 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: hospital pharmacist, 82%

Fig. 2 · Career map 6 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
specialist pharmacist 69% covered industrial pharmacist 68% covered pharmacy technician 63% covered pharmacy assistant 63% covered hospital pharmacist 82% covered homeopath 46% covered pharmacist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 6 nearest destinations from pharmacist, 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 pharmacist already covers. All 12 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 pharmacist needs 65 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
  • provide medicines information assisting and caring
  • supervise pharmaceutical staff management skills
  • applied therapeutics related to medicines health and welfare
  • evaluate scientific data concerning medicines information skills
  • monitor patients' medication communication, collaboration and creativity
  • prepare doses of medication according to patient needs assisting and caring
  • counsel healthcare users on medicines communication, collaboration and creativity
  • dispense medicines communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain pharmacy records information skills
  • perform therapeutic drug monitoring assisting and caring
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Pharmacist 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 a pharmacist’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.