Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a postman/postwoman can go next

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

Postmen/Postwomen deliver mails and parcel posts to residences and businesses. They perform mail delivery and collect signatures from the recipients. They perform other duties in connection with mail services from post offices or related organisations.

Also known as courier, in house courier, bike courier, motorcycle messenger, postman, postwoman, mailwoman, postal carrier, postal service worker, urban bike messenger, in house messenger, delivery man.

Clerical support workers 23 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: motorcycle delivery person, 75%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
motorcycle delivery person 75% covered bicycle courier 73% covered car and van delivery driver 56% covered mail clerk 49% covered private chauffeur 18% covered postman/postwoman You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from postman/postwoman, 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 postman/postwoman already covers. All 5 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 postman/postwoman needs 16 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
  • operate mailing information systems information skills
  • ensure the integrity of mail handling and moving
  • organise mail deliveries management skills
  • differentiate types of packages handling and moving
  • analyse travel alternatives information skills
  • implement environmental protection measures assisting and caring
  • handle mail management skills
  • data protection information and communication technologies (icts)
  • establish daily priorities management skills
  • interpret traffic signals assisting and caring
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Postman/postwoman is filed under Clerical support workers, ISCO major group 4. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a postman/postwoman’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.