Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a pharmacologist can go next

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

Pharmacologists study the manner in which drugs and medicaments interact with organisms, living systems, and their parts (i.e. cells, tissues, or organs). Their research aims at identifying substances that can be ingested by humans and that exert adequate biochemical functions for curing illnesses.

Also known as pharmacology researcher, pharmacology science researcher, pharmacology research analyst, pharmacology research scientist, pharmacology studies researcher, pharmacology studies scholar, pharmacology scholar, pharmacology scientist, pharmacology studies research analyst, pharmacology studies scientist, pharmacology studies research scientist, pharmacology studies analyst.

Professionals 89 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: immunologist, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
immunologist 77% covered toxicologist 74% covered biochemist 72% covered religion scientific researcher 71% covered physiologist 71% covered pharmacologist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from pharmacologist, 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 pharmacologist 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

A pharmacologist needs 55 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
  • pharmacovigilance legislation health and welfare
  • analyse medication's impact on brain information skills
  • pharmaceutical legislation business, administration and law
  • cancer risks health and welfare
  • medicines health and welfare
  • perform diagnostic testing for allergies information skills
  • pharmaceutical drug development health and welfare
  • communicable diseases health and welfare
  • pharmaceutical technology health and welfare
  • run laboratory simulations working with machinery and specialised equipment
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Pharmacologist 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 pharmacologist’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.