Occupation Atlaspastoral worker
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/665266cb-50dd-44a5-a920-ab04c67e251a
pastoral worker
Pastoral workers support religious communities. They provide spiritual education and guidance and implement programmes such as charity works and religious rites. Pastoral workers also assist ministers and help participants in the religious community with social, cultural or emotional problems.
Job Zone
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- 5
Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
SEASocial · Enterprising · Artistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social5.91
- E Enterprising4.17
- A Artistic3.44
- C Conventional2.89
- I Investigative2.11
- R Realistic2.10
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Clergy (21-2011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (9)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- build community relations
- establish collaborative relations
- mentor individuals
- observe confidentiality
- perform religious ceremonies
- promote religious activities
- provide charity services
- provide spiritual counselling
- respond to enquiries
Optional (23)
- apply knowledge of human behaviour
- budgetary principles
- conduct educational activities
- coordinate charity services
- crisis intervention
- develop educational resources
- interpret religious texts
- manage administrative systems
- manage fundraising activities
- manage staff
- manage volunteers
- perform fundraising activities
- perform ritual cleaning activities
- plan youth programmes
- prepare religious services
- provide social counselling
- psychological counselling methods
- reinforce positive behaviour
- represent religious institution
- show intercultural awareness
- support volunteers
- teach religious texts
- write work-related reports
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 9 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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