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mountain guide

Mountain guides assist visitors, interpret natural heritage and provide information and guidance to tourists on mountain expeditions. They support visitors with activities such as hiking, climbing and skiing in addition to ensuring their safety through monitoring both weather and health conditions.

Job Zone 3 — Medium Preparation NeededHolland code SEA50 skills on file

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Job Zone

Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed

Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.

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Occupational interest profile

SEASocial · Enterprising · Artistic — the three strongest interests, in order

S Social5.35
E Enterprising3.64
A Artistic3.46
R Realistic3.33
C Conventional2.85
I Investigative2.40

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 Tour Guides and Escorts (39-7011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.

Typically associated skills

Essential (26)

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.

Optional (24)

O*NET equivalents

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ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 26 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.

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host/hostess
6 shared · 11 more of its ownescort visitors to places of interest, manage tourist groups, welcome tour groups, handle personal identifiable information
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6 shared · 31 more of its ownmanage visitor flows in natural protected areas, geographical areas relevant to tourism, educate on sustainable tourism, engage local communities in the management of natural protected areas
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5 shared · 31 more of its ownmanage visitor flows in natural protected areas, geographical areas relevant to tourism, engage local communities in the management of natural protected areas, manage conservation of natural and cultural heritage
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This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license; O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. ESCO occupations and skills are from the European Commission's ESCO classification, and the occupation crosswalk is the official ESCO–O*NET mapping by the ESCO Secretariat with USDOL/ETA. This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. BlissPoint Analytics has modified all or some of this information: skill, task and descriptor ratings are rounded to one decimal, and ESCO occupations show Job Zone and interests copied from a crosswalked O*NET occupation. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.