Career guide
800+ careers with prospects, pay, AI risk and study routes in Europe, the UK and the US. 814 careers in the guide.
By field
- 💻IT and digital tech72 careers
- ⚙️Engineering and manufacturing45 careers
- 🚀Aviation and space20 careers
- 🏗️Construction and architecture26 careers
- 🔬Science and research65 careers
- 🩺Medicine79 careers
- 🤝Psychology and social care30 careers
- 🎓Education32 careers
- 🎨Design and art38 careers
- 🎭Music, theatre, film, languages49 careers
- 📱Media and advertising42 careers
- 📈Business and management36 careers
- 💰Finance and economics29 careers
- ⚖️Law22 careers
- 🏛️Government and diplomacy21 careers
- 🛡️Armed forces, police, rescue28 careers
- 🚢Transport and logistics26 careers
- 🌿Nature, farming, animals48 careers
- 🏅Sport18 careers
- 🍽️Service, food, beauty34 careers
- 🔨Skilled trades and crafts54 careers
By interest
🤝 Helping and caring📖 Teaching and mentoring🧠 Psychology🧭 Organising and leading🗣️ Persuading and negotiating💻 Coding and digital⚙️ Tech and engineering🏗️ Building and spaces📐 Maths and data🔧 Making things by hand⚛️ Physics and chemistry🧬 Biology🩺 Medicine and health🌋 Planet: ocean, climate, geology🐾 Animals🏕️ Outdoor work, expeditions🎨 Drawing and design🎭 Music, theatre, dance✍️ Writing and literature📱 Media, content, advertising💄 Beauty, style, fashion🍳 Cooking and hospitality🌍 Languages and cultures🏛️ History, society, politics⚖️ Law and justice💰 Finance and economics🗂️ Order, paperwork, systems🏃 Sport and movement✈️ Transport, flying, sea🛡️ Protecting, rescuing, serving
Studying abroad
- 🇬🇧United Kingdomtuition, language, admission
- 🇮🇪Irelandtuition, language, admission
- 🇺🇸United Statestuition, language, admission
- 🇩🇪Germanytuition, language, admission
- 🇦🇹Austriatuition, language, admission
- 🇨🇭Switzerlandtuition, language, admission
- 🇳🇱Netherlandstuition, language, admission
- 🇧🇪Belgiumtuition, language, admission
- 🇫🇷Francetuition, language, admission
- 🇮🇹Italytuition, language, admission
- 🇪🇸Spaintuition, language, admission
- 🇵🇹Portugaltuition, language, admission
- 🇸🇪Swedentuition, language, admission
- 🇩🇰Denmarktuition, language, admission
- 🇫🇮Finlandtuition, language, admission
- 🇳🇴Norwaytuition, language, admission
- 🇵🇱Polandtuition, language, admission
- 🇨🇿Czech Republictuition, language, admission
Growing and AI-resistant
- ❤️ Cardiothoracic SurgeonOperates on the heart and blood vessels: bypass surgery, valve replacement, aortic aneurysms. Hours-long open-heart operations. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🧊 Transplant SurgeonTransplants organs: kidneys, liver, heart, lungs. Urgent call-outs when a donor organ appears, highly complex operations and years of follow-up. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🎯 Interventional Radiologist / Interventional CardiologistTreats blood vessels and the heart through a small puncture in the arm or leg: guides catheters under X-ray, places stents for heart attacks and strokes, seals aneurysms. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 👵 GeriatricianTreats older people as a whole: several illnesses at once, frailty, falls, memory problems. Cuts unnecessary medication and helps people stay independent longer. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 💊 NurseGives injections and drips, takes blood, monitors patients and assists in surgery and with dressings. Spends more time with patients than anyone else. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🦿 Physiotherapist / physical therapistGets people back on their feet after a stroke, injury or operation: designs exercises, teaches them to walk again and works with pain and movement. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🖐️ Occupational therapistHelps people get back to everyday life after illness or injury: dressing, cooking, working. Picks adaptive equipment and adapts the home. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🌷 Palliative Care Worker (Hospice)Helps people with incurable illness live their remaining time free of pain and with dignity: care, conversations, support for the family, granting last wishes. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🧓 Care workerLooks after older and bedridden people: helps them eat and wash, turns them, gives medication on schedule, takes them out and keeps them company. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🤖 Machine Learning EngineerTrains and deploys machine learning models: recommendations, recognition, forecasts, language models. Takes a model from experiment to production. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🛸 Drone (UAV) EngineerBuilds drones: picks motors and batteries, designs the frame, tunes the autopilot and radio links. Field test, then back to the bench. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🔌 Circuit Design EngineerDesigns the circuits inside devices, from power supplies to high-speed interfaces. Simulates, picks components and sends the board off to manufacturing. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- ☢️ Nuclear EngineerWorks with nuclear reactors: designs them, runs them and is responsible for the safety of power plants and naval reactors. Mistakes are not forgiven here. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🎛️ Controls & Automation EngineerAutomates factories, power plants and pipelines: sensors, PLCs, SCADA. Writes the control logic so the plant can run on its own. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🤖 Robotics EngineerBuilds robots: robotic arms, mobile platforms, warehouse and service robots. Drives, sensors and kinematics, so it all moves and grips. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🔬 Microelectronics Engineer (Chip Design & Fabrication)Designs microchips and the processes to make them: chip layout, lithography, testing. Builds the 'brains' of all electronics. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🔋 Energy Storage Engineer (Batteries & Hydrogen)Develops batteries, grid storage and hydrogen systems, from a single cell to a container-sized battery for the power grid. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🧠 AI Engineer (LLM & Agents)Builds large language models into products: AI agents, document search (RAG) and AI-driven automation of company workflows. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🛡️ Cybersecurity EngineerProtects a company from hackers: secures networks and systems, hunts for vulnerabilities, responds to attacks and trains staff not to fall for phishing. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🏭 OT / Industrial Control Systems Security SpecialistProtects the systems that run factories, power plants and water utilities from cyberattacks. Here a breach doesn’t mean a data leak, it means an accident. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🦾 Robotics Software EngineerTeaches robots to see, move and make decisions: warehouse robots, factory arms, autonomous vehicles. The code is tested on a real machine. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🤖 Health data scientist / medical AI engineerTrains models to detect disease on scans and predict risk from patient records, and analyses data from hospitals and clinical trials. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🕵️ Fraud AnalystCatches fraudsters at a bank, marketplace or telecom: tunes rules and models, investigates suspicious transactions, uncovers schemes and money mules. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
- 🤖 Legal Technologist / Legal EngineerAutomates lawyers' work: rolls out AI for contract review, sets up document automation and case-law databases, and translates law into algorithms. Prospects · Pay · AI resistance
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