Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a motor vehicles parts advisor can go next

4 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a motor vehicles parts advisor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Motor vehicles parts advisors sell motor vehicle parts, order parts and identify alternative parts.

Also known as bus parts advisor, bus and coach service operative, fleet parts operative, light vehicle service operative, PCV parts advisor, heavy vehicle parts operative, bus and coach parts operative, coach parts operative, LGV parts advisor, light vehicle parts operative, heavy vehicle parts advisor, coach parts advisor.

Service and sales workers 36 skills on file 4 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: sales engineer, 19%

Fig. 2 · Career map 4 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
sales engineer 19% covered vehicle maintenance supervisor 18% covered refurbishing technician 17% covered vehicle restoration technician 16% covered motor vehicles parts advi… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 4 nearest destinations from motor vehicles parts advisor, 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 a motor vehicles parts advisor already covers. All 4 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 4 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A motor vehicles parts advisor needs 22 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
  • analyse supplier's information on vehicle parts information skills
  • check vehicle parts on delivery information skills
  • sell vehicle parts communication, collaboration and creativity
  • ensure parts packaging information skills
  • organise vehicle parts storage handling and moving
  • carry out shipping orders for parts management skills
  • gather information to substitute parts information skills
  • identify parts requested by customers communication, collaboration and creativity
  • load products for dispatch handling and moving
  • maintain parts inventory information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a motor vehicles parts advisor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Motor vehicles parts advisor 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 a motor vehicles parts advisor’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.