Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a urban planner can go next

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

Urban planners create development plans for towns, urban areas, cities, and regions. They research the needs of the community or the region (economic, social, transport) and evaluate other parameters such as sustainability in order to present solid programs aimed at the improvement of the site.

Professionals 82 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: religion scientific researcher, 71%

religion scientific researcher 71% covered geographer 69% covered palaeontologist 69% covered seismologist 69% covered demographer 69% covered urban planner You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from urban planner. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a urban planner 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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urban planner 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 urban planner 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.