From road maintenance worker to civil engineering worker
10 of the 28 essential skills of a civil engineering worker are already essential for a road maintenance worker — about 36% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from road maintenance worker in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 10
- skills carry over
- 18
- would be new
- 36%
- of the target job covered
- 28
- essential skills of a civil engineering worker
What a civil engineering worker does
Civil engineering workers perform tasks concerning the cleaning and preparation of construction sites for civil engineering projects. This includes the work on building and maintenance of roads, railways and dams.
What carries over
10 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
What would be new
18 skillsEssential for a civil engineering worker and not for a road maintenance worker. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- compaction techniques
- dig soil mechanically
- dredging consoles
- excavation techniques
- inspect construction sites
- inspect drainage channels
- inspect railways visually
- lay base courses
- lay pipe installation
- operate drones in civil engineering
- perform drainage work
- position guardrails and toeboards
- prepare subgrade for road pavement
- provide pipe bedding
- rail infrastructure
- road traffic laws
- work in a construction team
- work trains
← road maintenance workercivil engineering worker →The other way round
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How far are you from being a civil engineering worker?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.