From chemist to analytical chemist
39 of the 49 essential skills of a analytical chemist are already essential for a chemist — about 80% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from chemist 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.
- 39
- skills carry over
- 10
- would be new
- 80%
- of the target job covered
- 49
- essential skills of a analytical chemist
What a analytical chemist does
Analytical chemists research and describe the chemical composition of substances. Moreover, they draw conclusions related to the behaviour of such substances in different conditions. Analytical chemists play an important role in looking at the relationship between chemistry and the environment, food, fuel, and medicine. They use a range of techniques such as electro-chromatography, gas and high performance liquid chromatography and spectroscopy.
What carries over
39 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- analyse chemical substances
- analytical chemistry
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- apply scientific methods
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- evaluate research activities
- green chemistry
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- laboratory techniques
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mentor individuals
- operate open source software
- oxidation
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- scientific literature
- scientific research methodology
- speak different languages
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- use chemical analysis equipment
- write scientific publications
What would be new
10 skillsEssential for a analytical chemist and not for a chemist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from chemist
2 roles- biochemist39 skills in common
- toxicologist38 skills in common
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