Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a security consultant can go next

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

Security consultants provide security services to clients and individuals that help them preventing, planning and mitigating threats such as terrorism, espionage, theft, and violence to their organisation, including the buildings, operations, and employees. The services they provide depend on their clients' security needs and requirements and may include services such as threat analysis, security risk management, security programme development.

Also known as security chief, security manager, security supervisor, security specialist, security expert, security advisor.

Service and sales workers 39 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: security guard supervisor, 47%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
security guard supervisor 47% covered security alarm investigator 35% covered security guard 34% covered immigration officer 30% covered store detective 30% covered security consultant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from security consultant, 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 security consultant already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A security consultant needs 21 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
  • security of assets legislation business, administration and law
  • write security reports information skills
  • international security studies social sciences, journalism and information
  • advice on security risk management information skills
  • advise on strengthening security communication, collaboration and creativity
  • assess risks of clients' assets information skills
  • consultation methods business, administration and law
  • identify terrorism threats information skills
  • security threats services
  • assessment of risks and threats information and communication technologies (icts)
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Security consultant is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. 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 security consultant’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.