Aeronautical information specialist to aeronautical information service officer
An aeronautical information specialist already meets 50% of what the aeronautical information service officer role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.
45.8/ 100
1 How much of what an aeronautical information service officer is expected to do is already part of an aeronautical information specialist’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 service officer role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
An aeronautical information service officer role treats 6 of its required skills as things an aeronautical information specialist 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
- work in an aviation team
What stands in the way is 6 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 service officer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of an aeronautical information specialist 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 6 the aeronautical information service officer role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 7 missing skills fall into 6 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 analyse data for aeronautical publications required
- still to learn ensure accuracy of aeronautical data required
- still to learn follow airport safety procedures required
- still to learn common aviation safety regulations required
- still to learn prepare notices to airmen for pilots required
- still to learn operate scientific measuring equipment required
- optional, not held tolerate stress optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries an aeronautical information service officer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 analyse data for aeronautical publications practise this
- 02 common aviation safety regulations study this
- 03 ensure accuracy of aeronautical data 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 work in an aviation team skill
- already held use geographic information systems skill
1 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held tolerate stress optional
14 held skills the aeronautical information service officer role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role apply business acumen skill
- not needed by the target role apply technical communication skills skill
- not needed by the target role aviation meteorology knowledge
- not needed by the target role build business relationships skill
- not needed by the target role communicate with customers skill
- not needed by the target role compile data for navigation publications skill
- not needed by the target role have computer literacy skill
- not needed by the target role maintain up-to-date aeronautical information management services skill
- not needed by the target role manage aeronautical information management services skill
- not needed by the target role meet deadlines skill
- not needed by the target role perform market research skill
- not needed by the target role provide customer follow-up services skill
- not needed by the target role test improved aeronautical information management systems skill
- not needed by the target role write work-related reports 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.
- still to learn common aviation safety regulations required
Other moves recorded from aeronautical information specialist
- aviation data communications manager 37% covered · substantial
- aviation communications and frequency coordination manager 34% covered · substantial
- airport director 26% covered · substantial
- air traffic manager 25% covered · substantial
Full index of moves from aeronautical information specialist
Common questions about this move
Can an aeronautical information specialist become an aeronautical information service officer?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. An aeronautical information specialist already covers 50% of what an aeronautical information service officer is expected to do: 7 skills carry over, 6 of which the aeronautical information service officer role treats as required.
What skills does an aeronautical information specialist need to become an aeronautical information service officer?
6 required skills are missing, plus 1 optional ones. They fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by information skills. The single most important is analyse data for aeronautical publications.
How hard is the move from aeronautical information specialist to aeronautical information service officer?
Its learning distance is 45.8 out of 100, which is the moderate 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.