Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a trade development officer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a trade development officer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Trade development officers develop and implement trade policies both internally and in international import and export relations. They analyse the domestic and foreign markets in order to promote and establish business operations, and ensure trade proceedings are compliant with legislation and businesses are protected from distortions.

Also known as trade development director, import and export officer, import & export director, import and export director, senior trade development officer, international trade development officer.

Professionals 31 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: competition policy officer, 66%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
competition policy officer 66% covered economic development coordina… 51% covered employment programme coordina… 45% covered regional development policy o… 42% covered immigration policy officer 42% covered trade development officer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from trade development officer, 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 trade development officer 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

A trade development officer needs 16 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
  • develop trade policies management skills
  • promote free trade communication, collaboration and creativity
  • competition law business, administration and law
  • inspect government policy compliance information skills
  • business strategy concepts business, administration and law
  • build international relations communication, collaboration and creativity
  • market analysis business, administration and law
  • corporate law business, administration and law
  • maintain relations with local representatives communication, collaboration and creativity
  • international business business, administration and law
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a trade development officer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Trade development officer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a trade development officer’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.