Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a youth worker can go next

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

Youth workers support, accompany and counsel young people, focusing on their personal and social development. They are involved in managing community projects and services through one-to-one or group-based activities. Youth workers can be volunteers or paid professionals who facilitate non-formal and informal learning processes. They are engaged in a large spectrum of activities by, with and for young people.

Also known as senior youth worker, youth project team worker, youth support worker, youth centre worker, social worker youth justice, youth and community worker, welfare advisor, youth mentor, youth guidance worker, youth project team leader, youth advocate, youth advisor.

Professionals 73 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: education welfare officer, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
education welfare officer 77% covered residential home young people… 74% covered mental health support worker 71% covered social worker 71% covered residential home adult care w… 70% covered youth worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from youth worker, 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 youth worker 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 youth worker needs 72 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
  • promote youth work in the local community communication, collaboration and creativity
  • perform street interventions in social work assisting and caring
  • sexual disorders health and welfare
  • communicate about youth's well-being communication, collaboration and creativity
  • cooperate with professionals communication, collaboration and creativity
  • apply anti-oppressive practices assisting and caring
  • apply case management communication, collaboration and creativity
  • make legislation transparent for users of social services communication, collaboration and creativity
  • negotiate with social service stakeholders communication, collaboration and creativity
  • negotiate with social service users communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Youth worker 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 youth worker’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.