Compare careers
Factual side-by-side attributes from the imported O*NET and BLS OEWS datasets. No career is ranked or recommended.
Career A (or your current career)
Home Health Aides
Career B (or your target career)
Registered Nurses
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Comparison table
| Metric | Home Health Aides | Registered Nurses |
|---|---|---|
| National median salary | Not published | $97,550 |
| Local median salary | Not published | Not published |
| National employment | Not published | 3,379,720 |
| Typical education | Not recorded | Bachelor's Degree |
| Job zone | 2 | 4 |
| Important skills | Service Orientation, Active Listening, Social Perceptiveness, Time Management, Monitoring | Social Perceptiveness, Coordination, Speaking, Active Listening, Service Orientation |
| Related careers | Clinical Nurse Specialists, Emergency Medicine Physicians, Occupational Therapists, Acute Care Nurses | Hospitalists, Cardiologists, General Internal Medicine Physicians, Obstetricians and Gynecologists |
Career transition: skill overlap
Skill overlap
61%
11 of 18 target skills
Target-only skills
7
Current-only skills
0
Skill overlap compares O*NET skills rated at importance 3.0 or above for each occupation. It is a measure of listed skill overlap, not a probability of getting the job.
Shared skills
- Social Perceptiveness+1.3 level
- Critical Thinking+1.1 level
- Service Orientation+0.6 level
- Speaking+1.3 level
- Active Listening+0.6 level
- Reading Comprehension+1.1 level
- Judgment and Decision Making+0.8 level
- Monitoring+1.0 level
- Complex Problem Solving+0.4 level
- Instructing+0.8 level
- Time Management+0.1 level
Only in Registered Nurses
- Coordination
- Writing
- Active Learning
- Learning Strategies
- Operations Monitoring
- Systems Evaluation
- Systems Analysis
Only in Home Health Aides
- None