Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a soil surveying technician can go next

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

Soil surveying technicians analyse soil by carrying out technical surveying tasks, using soil surveying techniques. They focus on the process of classifying soil types and other soil properties. Soil surveying technicians operate surveying equipment and utilise programs to retrieve and interpret relevant data, and perform computations as required.

Also known as geologist, mineral technician, geological technician, soil technician, soil scientist, land survey technician, field survey technician, surveyor, mineral technologist, field surveyor, survey technician, geological technologist.

Technicians and associate professionals 37 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: soil scientist, 61%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
soil scientist 61% covered surveying technician 44% covered land surveyor 44% covered hydrographic surveying techni… 36% covered hydrographic surveyor 34% covered soil surveying technician You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from soil surveying technician, 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 soil surveying technician 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 soil surveying technician needs 19 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
  • soil mechanics engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • adjust surveying equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • conduct soil sample tests information skills
  • prepare surveying report information skills
  • soil science natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • operate surveying instruments working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • soil structure agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • collect samples handling and moving
  • conduct field work information skills
  • gather experimental data information skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Soil surveying technician is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 soil surveying technician’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.