Where a career guidance advisor can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a career guidance advisor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Career guidance advisors provide guidance and advice to adults and students on making educational, training and occupational choices and assist people in managing their careers, through career planning and career exploration. They help identify options for future careers, assist beneficiaries in the development of their curriculum and help people reflect on their ambitions, interests and qualifications. Career guidance advisors may provide advice on various career planning issues and make suggestions for lifelong learning if necessary, including study recommendations. They may also assist the individual in the search for a job or provide guidance and advice to prepare a candidate for recognition of prior learning.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 69%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 3difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 56required or supplementary
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- assessor of prior learning 46% covered · difficulty 59.4
- academic support officer 45% covered · difficulty 58
- educational counsellor 43% covered · difficulty 61.2
- further education principal 38% covered · difficulty 64
- deputy head teacher 34% covered · difficulty 66.3
- learning mentor 33% covered · difficulty 65.7
- head of higher education institutions 32% covered · difficulty 68.7
- university department head 32% covered · difficulty 69.7
- dean of faculty 31% covered · difficulty 68.4
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career guidance advisor is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a career guidance advisor 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.