Where a politics lecturer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a politics lecturer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Politics lecturers are subject professors, teachers, or lecturers who instruct students who have obtained an upper secondary education diploma in their own specialised field of study, politics, which is predominantly academic in nature. They work with their university research assistants and university teaching assistants for the preparation of lectures and of exams, for grading papers and exams and for leading review and feedback sessions for the students. They also conduct academic research in their respective field of political studies, publish their findings and liaise with other university colleagues.
Also known as politics professor, professor of politics, political studies instructor, political science professor, politics and international relations lecturer, political science lector, professor of political studies, political science docent, professor of political science, political science lecturer, political studies professor, political studies docent.
Professionals 90 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: architecture lecturer, 80%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A politics lecturer needs 32 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- teach political science communication, collaboration and creativity
- political ideologies social sciences, journalism and information
- political campaigning social sciences, journalism and information
- political parties social sciences, journalism and information
- politics social sciences, journalism and information
- political science social sciences, journalism and information
- government policy social sciences, journalism and information
- social sciences social sciences, journalism and information
- compile course material communication, collaboration and creativity
- liaise with educational staff communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a politics lecturer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- anthropology lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 30.8
- earth science lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 30.8
- journalism lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 30.8
- physics lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 30.8
- sociology lecturer 79% covered · difficulty 31.5
- archaeology lecturer 79% covered · difficulty 31.6
- architecture lecturer 79% covered · difficulty 31.6
- art studies lecturer 79% covered · difficulty 31.6
- biology lecturer 79% covered · difficulty 31.6
- business lecturer 79% covered · difficulty 31.6
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Politics lecturer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a politics lecturer’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.