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bus driver

Bus drivers operate buses or coaches, take fares, and look after passengers.

Job Zone 2 — Some Preparation NeededHolland code RCS36 skills on file

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Job Zone

Zone 2: Some Preparation Needed

Some preparation. Usually a high school diploma, some previous work-related skill or experience, and a few months to a year of training with experienced workers.

Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.

Occupational interest profile

RCSRealistic · Conventional · Social — the three strongest interests, in order

R Realistic5.95
C Conventional4.70
S Social3.60
E Enterprising2.81
I Investigative1.00
A Artistic1.00

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 Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity (53-3052.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.

Typically associated skills

Essential (33)

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 (3)

O*NET equivalents

From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.

Closest occupations

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ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 33 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.

trolley bus driver
26 shared · 5 more of its ownclean road vehicles, keep time accurately, tolerate sitting for long periods, adhere to transportation work schedule
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tram driver
24 shared · 10 more of its ownclean road vehicles, keep time accurately, tolerate sitting for long periods, adhere to transportation work schedule
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private chauffeur
17 shared · 8 more of its owntolerate sitting for long periods, focus on passengers, transport topography, control the performance of the vehicle
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taxi driver
13 shared · 9 more of its ownorganise vehicle breakdown support, tolerate sitting for long periods, transport topography, ensure vehicle operability
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cargo vehicle driver
10 shared · 8 more of its owntransport topography, control the performance of the vehicle, mechanical components of vehicles, use communication devices
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passenger fare controller
10 shared · 14 more of its ownadhere to transportation work schedule, communicate clearly with passengers, assist disable passengers, help to control passenger behaviour during emergency situations
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armoured car driver
9 shared · 11 more of its ownkeep time accurately, adhere to transportation work schedule, transport topography, control the performance of the vehicle
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dangerous goods driver
9 shared · 11 more of its owntransport topography, control the performance of the vehicle, perform defensive driving, mechanical components of vehicles
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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.