Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a toxicologist can go next

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

Toxicologists study the effects that chemical substances or biological and physical agents have in living organisms, more specifically, on the environment and on the animal and human health. They determine doses of the exposure to substances for arising toxic effects in environments, people, and living organisms, and also perform experiments on animals and cell cultures.

Also known as toxicology analyst, toxicology science researcher, toxicologists, toxicology studies scholar, toxicology scholar, toxicology research analyst, toxicology studies scientist, toxicology researcher, toxicology studies research analyst, toxicology studies researcher, toxicology studies research scientist, toxicology studies analyst.

Professionals 86 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: physiologist, 78%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
physiologist 78% covered immunologist 77% covered religion scientific researcher 75% covered cosmetic chemist 75% covered biophysicist 75% covered toxicologist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from toxicologist, 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 toxicologist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A toxicologist needs 50 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
  • identify poisons handling and moving
  • advise on poisoning incidents communication, collaboration and creativity
  • cancer risks health and welfare
  • perform toxicological studies information skills
  • advise on chemical use reduction communication, collaboration and creativity
  • mix chemicals handling and moving
  • perform chemical experiments working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • toxicology natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • life sciences natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • analytical chemistry natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Toxicologist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 toxicologist’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.