Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an armoured car guard can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an armoured car guard already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Armoured car guards ensure the safe transportation of valuable items such as money between locations like stores and banks. They load and unload the vehicle, handle the documentation of the transfer, deliver the items to the correct location and respond quickly to robberies, according to the security protocol in place. They may also handle guns and drive the armoured car.

Also known as car escort, armoured van guard, armoured car security guard, armored car guard, armoured truck escort, truck escort, armoured truck guard, armoured car escort, armoured van escort, van escort.

Service and sales workers 29 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: armoured car driver, 56%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
armoured car driver 56% covered crowd controller 38% covered bodyguard 33% covered gate guard 30% covered life guard 28% covered armoured car guard You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from armoured car guard, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an armoured car guard already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An armoured car guard needs 14 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • manage cash transportation assisting and caring
  • provide secured transportation assisting and caring
  • load cargo handling and moving
  • maintain vehicle delivery documentation management skills
  • monitor security measures information skills
  • unload cargo handling and moving
  • handle delivered packages handling and moving
  • comply with the principles of self-defence assisting and caring
  • security threats services
  • liaise with security authorities communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an armoured car guard does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Armoured car guard is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an armoured car guard’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.