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Roles that share your skills

Pick the role you do now. See adjacent roles that ask for the same skills, what carries over, and what you would be missing.

Showing adjacent roles for Cost Estimators — switch role below

Business & Finance

What Cost Estimators shares with adjacent roles

Cost Estimators lists 9 core skills. Each role below shares overlapping skills you can highlight when pivoting.

Construction Managers

1 shared skill

Carries over

Earned Value Management (EVM)

You would be missing

Project Scheduling (Primavera P6, MS Project)OSHA 30-Hour CertificationBudget Management & Cost ControlBIM/Revit CoordinationSubcontractor ManagementRFI & Submittal ProcessingChange Order ManagementAIA Contract AdministrationSite Safety Compliance

Management Analysts

1 shared skill

Carries over

Cost-Benefit Analysis

You would be missing

Business Process ReengineeringData Analysis (Excel, Tableau, Power BI)Financial ModelingProject Management (PMP, Agile, Lean Six Sigma)Stakeholder ManagementERP Systems (SAP, Oracle)Strategic PlanningKPI DevelopmentChange Management

What does not travel

No adjacent role above lists these specialist skills — keep them compact when pivoting.

Quantity takeoffWBS (Work Breakdown Structure)Parametric estimatingBid preparation and analysisRSMeans cost dataCAD/BIM model interpretationAACE International certification (CCP/CEP)