Aeronautical information service officer to aeronautical information specialist
An aeronautical information service officer already meets 37% of what the aeronautical information specialist role asks for. The move turns on 11 required skills not yet in the profile.
61.3/ 100
1 How much of what an aeronautical information specialist is expected to do is already part of an aeronautical information service officer’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the aeronautical information specialist role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
An aeronautical information specialist role treats 7 of its required skills as things an aeronautical information service officer already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- ensure client orientation
- ensure compliance with legal requirements
- ensure safety in international aviation
- geographic areas
- use different communication channels
- use geographic information systems
What stands in the way is 11 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 7 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. An aeronautical information specialist role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of an aeronautical information service officer background worth leading with.
- already held ensure safety in international aviation assisting and caring
- already held work in an aviation team communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held geographic areas natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- already held use geographic information systems working with computers
- already held ensure compliance with legal requirements assisting and caring
- already held ensure client orientation communication, collaboration and creativity
All 7 carried skills, including the 7 the aeronautical information specialist role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 14 missing skills fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn apply technical communication skills required
- still to learn build business relationships required
- still to learn communicate with customers required
- still to learn write work-related reports required
- still to learn maintain up-to-date aeronautical information management services required
- still to learn compile data for navigation publications required
- optional, not held perform market research optional
- still to learn manage aeronautical information management services required
- still to learn have computer literacy required
- still to learn meet deadlines required
- optional, not held apply business acumen optional
- still to learn provide customer follow-up services required
- still to learn test improved aeronautical information management systems required
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries an aeronautical information specialist role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 maintain up-to-date aeronautical information management services practise this
- 02 test improved aeronautical information management systems practise this
- 03 compile data for navigation publications practise this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 7 skills that carry over
- already held ensure client orientation skill
- already held ensure compliance with legal requirements skill
- already held ensure safety in international aviation skill
- already held geographic areas knowledge
- already held use different communication channels skill
- already held use geographic information systems skill
- already held work in an aviation team skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
- optional, not held aviation meteorology optional
3 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held aviation meteorology optional
- optional, not held apply business acumen optional
- optional, not held perform market research optional
7 held skills the aeronautical information specialist role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role analyse data for aeronautical publications skill
- not needed by the target role common aviation safety regulations knowledge
- not needed by the target role ensure accuracy of aeronautical data skill
- not needed by the target role follow airport safety procedures skill
- not needed by the target role operate scientific measuring equipment skill
- not needed by the target role prepare notices to airmen for pilots skill
- not needed by the target role tolerate stress skill
1 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- optional, not held aviation meteorology optional
Other moves recorded from aeronautical information service officer
- aviation data communications manager 29% covered · substantial
- air traffic manager 25% covered · substantial
- aviation communications and frequency coordination manager 23% covered · substantial
- aircraft dispatcher 22% covered · career change
Full index of moves from aeronautical information service officer
Common questions about this move
Can an aeronautical information service officer become an aeronautical information specialist?
Yes, and it is a substantial move. An aeronautical information service officer already covers 37% of what an aeronautical information specialist is expected to do: 7 skills carry over, 7 of which the aeronautical information specialist role treats as required.
What skills does an aeronautical information service officer need to become an aeronautical information specialist?
11 required skills are missing, plus 3 optional ones. They fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by communication, collaboration and creativity. The single most important is maintain up-to-date aeronautical information management services.
How hard is the move from aeronautical information service officer to aeronautical information specialist?
Its learning distance is 61.3 out of 100, which is the substantial band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.