Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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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.

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

physiologist 78% covered immunologist 77% covered religion scientific researcher 75% covered cosmetic chemist 75% covered biophysicist 75% covered toxicologist You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from toxicologist. 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.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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toxicologist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a toxicologist already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.