Security Guards: where your skills can take you
Guard, patrol, or monitor premises to prevent theft, violence, or infractions of rules. May operate x-ray and metal detector equipment.
Most common qualification in Australia: a certificate or diploma (36% of workers, 2021 Census) · Australian median pay for Security Officers and Guards: A$94,500 full-time (Jobs and Skills Australia) · Security licence (state) — mandatory, includes fingerprinting
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Three moves that use what a security guard 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.
Animal Control Workers
🧰 Your current job already uses bringing people around to an idea, negotiating, listening properly 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 Law and Government, which your job does not use much. The most common level in the US is high school or less (65%).
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Handle animals for the purpose of investigations of mistreatment, or control of abandoned, dangerous, or unattended animals.
Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs
🧰 Your current job already uses reading people, working in step with other people, looking after customers and clients and sound judgement.
🎓 A certificate or diploma. About the same level of study as your job, but in a different field: it leans on Transportation, which your job does not use much. The most common level in the US is high school or less (74%).
🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗
Drive a motor vehicle to transport passengers on a planned or scheduled basis. May collect a fare. Includes nonemergency medical transporters and hearse drivers.
Nursing Assistants
🧰 Your current job already uses listening properly, looking after customers and clients, reading people and working in step with other people.
🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in Australia is a certificate or diploma (49%).
🪪 National Police Check; NDIS Worker Screening for disability work
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Provide or assist with basic care or support under the direction of onsite licensed nursing staff. Perform duties such as monitoring of health status, feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, or ambulation of patients in a health or nursing facility. May include medication administration and other health-related tasks. Includes nursing care attendants, nursing aides, and nursing attendants.
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