Career Overlap Occupation record
RecordJob

Where a psychic can go next

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

Psychics claim to have extra-sensory talents to gather information and insight into people's lives, events or situations. They offer advice to clients about topics of importance to their clients such as health, money and love. Psychics often work with traditional practices such as tarot card reading, palm reading or using astrological charts.

Also known as channeller, sensitive, psychic reader, palm-reader, clairvoyant, mental telepathist, telepath, mind-reader, palmist.

Service and sales workers 23 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: fortune teller, 73%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
fortune teller 73% covered medium 63% covered astrologer 56% covered life coach 36% covered dating service consultant 32% covered psychic You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from psychic, 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 psychic 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 psychic needs 10 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • read people information skills
  • occultism arts and humanities
  • give advice on personal matters assisting and caring
  • maintain privacy of service users assisting and caring
  • rhetoric social sciences, journalism and information
  • use consulting techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
  • prospect new customers communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain customer service communication, collaboration and creativity
  • manage personal professional development management skills
  • develop professional network communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Psychic is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. 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 psychic’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.