Where a pharmacist can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a pharmacist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Pharmacists prepare, dispense, and provide prescriptions for, over the counter medication. They offer clinical information on medicines, report suspected adverse reactions, and provide personalised support to patients. Pharmacists formulate and test medications in laboratories, and store, preserve, and distribute them.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 69%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 5difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 86required or supplementary
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- homeopath 46% covered · difficulty 57
- healthcare assistant 45% covered · difficulty 62.6
- dental hygienist 43% covered · difficulty 66.2
- physiotherapy assistant 42% covered · difficulty 68.8
- dental technician 40% covered · difficulty 63.6
- respiratory therapy technician 40% covered · difficulty 61.5
- acupuncturist 39% covered · difficulty 70.4
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pharmacist 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 pharmacist 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.