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Pick the role you do now. You get the roles that ask for the same skills, what carries over, and what you would be missing — from the occupational data, not from a guess about how careers go.

Showing Cost Estimators — pick another

Accountant Data Analyst Registered Nurse Sales Executive Software Engineer Actuaries Advertising and Promotions Managers Agricultural Engineers Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Chefs and Head Cooks Chemical Engineers Chemists Civil Engineers Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators Compliance Officers Computer and Information Systems Managers Computer Systems Analysts Construction Managers Cost Estimators Customer Service Representatives Database Administrators Data Scientists Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance Editors Electricians Environmental Engineers Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers Financial and Investment Analysts Financial Managers First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers Flight Attendants Food Service Managers General and Operations Managers Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers Graphic Designers Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers Human Resources Specialists Industrial Engineers Industrial Production Managers Information Security Analysts Insurance Underwriters Lawyers Loan Officers Lodging Managers Logisticians Machinists Management Analysts Marketing Managers Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists Mechanical Engineers Medical and Health Services Managers Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists Network and Computer Systems Administrators Operations Research Analysts Personal Financial Advisors Petroleum Engineers Pharmacists Pharmacy Technicians Power Plant Operators

Business & Finance

What Cost Estimators shares with other roles

Cost Estimators lists 9 skills. Each role below shares at least one of them.

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

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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

Role guide Map from here

What does not travel

No role above lists these. That is the honest half of "your skills are transferable" — worth knowing before you plan around them.

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

Being straight about it

What this map is not

An edge here means the occupational data lists the same skill for both roles. It does not mean people move between them, or that one leads to the other.
There is no timeline, no salary and no difficulty rating, because nothing in this dataset measures any of those.
Skills come from O*NET, ESCO and India's NCO. They describe the occupation as catalogued, not any particular job advert.
A missing skill is a gap in the catalogue's terms, not a verdict on you. You may already have it under a different name.

A shared skill is only worth something if your resume shows it

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