Childcare Workers: where your skills can take you
Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.
Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count) · Working With Children Check + Cert III in early childhood (or studying for it) — required
Job names and descriptions on this page come from the US government's job list (O*NET). Some use American words, for example "elementary school" for primary school.
Three moves that use what a childcare worker already knows
Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.
Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials
🧰 Your current job already uses teaching other people, bringing people around to an idea, negotiating and finding the best way to learn or teach something.
🎓 No more study. The most common level in Australia is Year 12 or below (58%).
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Officiate at competitive athletic or sporting events. Detect infractions of rules and decide penalties according to established regulations. Includes all sporting officials, referees, and competition judges.
Home Health Aides
In national shortage — employers actively looking (Jobs and Skills Australia, 2025)
🧰 Your current job already uses looking after customers and clients, reading people, teaching other people and bringing people around to an idea.
🎓 A certificate or diploma. The most common level in Australia is a certificate or diploma (52%).
🪪 National Police Check; NDIS Worker Screening for disability work
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Monitor the health status of an individual with disabilities or illness, and address their health-related needs, such as changing bandages, dressing wounds, or administering medication. Work is performed under the direction of offsite or intermittent onsite licensed nursing staff. Provide assistance with routine healthcare tasks or activities of daily living, such as feeding, bathing, toileting, or ambulation. May also help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry depending on the patient's abilities.
Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop
🧰 Your current job already uses looking after customers and clients, negotiating, reading people and working in step with other people.
🎓 A certificate or diploma. About the same level of study as your job, but in a different field: it leans on Customer and Personal Service, which your job does not use much. The most common level in the US is high school or less (71%).
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Welcome patrons, seat them at tables or in lounge, and help ensure quality of facilities and service.
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O*NET 30.3 — This service incorporates information from the O*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JobMatcha has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
ABS ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update — Australian occupation tags are derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update correspondence tables (ABS, © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 4.0), bridged to U.S. occupations via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics SOC crosswalks (public domain). Only high-confidence (>= 0.8) one-to-one chains are shown; other mappings are withheld as 'Australian data unavailable'.
Australian pay and shortage lines: Jobs and Skills Australia.