Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a taxi controller can go next

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

Taxi controllers take bookings, dispatch vehicles, and are responsible for coordinating drivers while maintaining customer liaison.

Also known as taxi dispatcher, private hire controller, minicab controller, private hire dispatcher, minicab dispatcher.

Clerical support workers 22 skills on file 4 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: bus route supervisor, 23%

Fig. 2 · Career map 4 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
bus route supervisor 23% covered taxi driver 20% covered bus driver 18% covered trolley bus driver 17% covered taxi controller You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 4 nearest destinations from taxi controller, 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 taxi controller already covers. All 4 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 4 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A taxi controller needs 18 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
  • assign taxi fares information skills
  • control taxi schedules management skills
  • log times of taxis information skills
  • use codes to communicate with taxi drivers communication, collaboration and creativity
  • monitor drivers management skills
  • operate radio dispatch systems for taxis working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • follow up complaint reports communication, collaboration and creativity
  • match vehicles with routes management skills
  • relay messages through radio and telephone systems communication, collaboration and creativity
  • passenger transport regulations services
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Taxi controller 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 taxi controller’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.