Twenty Holland codes and UK jobs

RCI: practical work to a procedure, with some technical understanding: operating, maintaining and inspecting.

• Construction plant operator Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
• Train driver Locomotive Engineers
• Motor mechanic Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
• Radiographer Radiologic Technologists and Technicians
• Wind turbine technician Wind Turbine Service Technicians

RIC: engineering and technical work: designing, building and testing things that have to work.

• Civil engineer Civil Engineers
• Mechanical engineer Mechanical Engineers
• Electrical engineer Electrical Engineers
• Chemical engineer Chemical Engineers
• Dental technician Dental Laboratory Technicians

RCE: hands-on work with responsibility for people or a vehicle: driving, cooking, policing, flying.

• Police officer Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
• Chef Cooks, Restaurant
• Airline pilot Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
• Train conductor Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters
• Merchant navy deck officer Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels

RCS: practical work done for people, one at a time: prisons, salons, buses, operating theatres.

• Prison officer Correctional Officers and Jailers
• Hairdresser Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists
• Bus or coach driver Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity
• Operating department practitioner Surgical Technologists
• Embalmer Embalmers

RAC: making things by hand to a design: flowers, sound, furniture, cloth, stone.

• Florist Floral Designers
• Studio sound engineer Sound Engineering Technicians
• Furniture restorer Furniture Finishers
• Pattern cutter Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers
• Stonemason Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing

IRC: laboratory and field science: measuring, analysing and recording.

• Chemist Chemists
• Physicist Physicists
• Microbiologist Microbiologists
• Meteorologist Atmospheric and Space Scientists
• Forensic scientist Forensic Science Technicians

ICR: technical investigation to a method: networks, biology, transport, safety.

• Network engineer Computer Network Architects
• Biologist Biologists
• Biotechnologist Molecular and Cellular Biologists
• Transport planner Transportation Planners
• Health and safety adviser Occupational Health and Safety Specialists

ISR: medicine with people and with your hands: eyes, anaesthetics, wards, surgery.

• Optometrist Optometrists
• Anaesthetist Anesthesiologists
• Hospital doctor General Internal Medicine Physicians
• Surgeon Pediatric Surgeons

IRS: medicine with your hands first: teeth, bones, feet, eyes.

• Dentist Dentists, General
• Surgeon Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric
• Podiatrist Podiatrists
• Orthoptist Orthoptists
• Hospital doctor Cardiologists

SIC: helping through expertise: speech, health education, teaching, assessment.

• Speech and language therapist Speech-Language Pathologists
• Health promotion specialist Health Education Specialists
• Physician associate Physician Assistants
• Higher education lecturer Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary
• Psychologist School Psychologists

SRI: helping with hands-on care: ambulances, teeth, backs, muscles.

• Paramedic Paramedics
• Emergency care assistant Emergency Medical Technicians
• Dental hygienist Dental Hygienists
• Chiropractor Chiropractors
• Massage therapist Massage Therapists

ECS: managing and selling with people: a hotel, a team, a sales floor, a client list.

• Hotel manager Lodging Managers
• Recruitment consultant Human Resources Specialists
• Events manager Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners
• Estate agent Real Estate Sales Agents
• Retail manager First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers

ECR: managing practical operations: sites, kitchens, buildings, buying.

• Restaurant manager Food Service Managers
• Retail buyer Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products
• Construction manager Construction Managers
• Facilities manager Facilities Managers
• Football referee Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials

CEI: finance and systems with judgment: audit, underwriting, claims, analysis.

• Auditor Accountants and Auditors
• IT project manager Computer and Information Systems Managers
• Insurance underwriter Insurance Underwriters
• Insurance claims handler Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators
• Investment analyst Financial and Investment Analysts

CES: organised work with customers: lending, accounts, front desks, arrangements.

• Mortgage adviser Loan Officers
• Credit controller Bill and Account Collectors
• Customer service assistant Customer Service Representatives
• Personal assistant Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
• Funeral director Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers

CRI: technical support and measurement: IT support, networks, surveying, energy.

• IT support technician Computer User Support Specialists
• Network manager Network and Computer Systems Administrators
• Land surveyor Surveyors
• Domestic energy assessor Energy Auditors
• Telecoms engineer Telecommunications Engineering Specialists

CER: procedures around goods and money: purchasing, borders, dispensing, freight.

• Purchasing manager Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
• Pharmacy assistant Pharmacy Aides
• Border Force officer Customs and Border Protection Officers
• Store detective Retail Loss Prevention Specialists
• Import-export clerk Freight Forwarders

CIR: checking systems and places against a standard: compliance, mapping, quality.

• Environmental health officer Environmental Compliance Inspectors
• Geospatial technician Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians
• Systems analyst Computer Systems Engineers/Architects
• Cartographer Cartographers and Photogrammetrists
• Quality control assistant Quality Control Analysts

CRE: procedures that keep things moving: stock, airspace, flying, warehouses.

• Stock control assistant Stockers and Order Fillers
• Air traffic controller Air Traffic Controllers
• Helicopter pilot Commercial Pilots
• Drone pilot Commercial Pilots
• Warehouse worker Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks

CIE: analysis for business and law: consulting, cases, risk, data.

• Management consultant Management Analysts
• Business analyst Management Analysts
• Paralegal Paralegals and Legal Assistants
• Actuary Actuaries
• Data analyst Business Intelligence Analysts

• Realistic (R). The doers: tools, machines, plants, animals and physical work.
• Investigative (I). The thinkers: research, analysis and working out how things work.
• Artistic (A). The creators: writing, design, music, performance and film.
• Social (S). The helpers: teaching, caring, guiding and treating.
• Enterprising (E). The persuaders: selling, managing, negotiating and starting things.
• Conventional (C). The organisers: records, procedures, numbers and getting details right.

Holland codes explained Where the six types come from and how a code is read.