airport security officertoimmigration officer
A airport security officer already meets 58% of what the immigration officer role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.
This move: 38.1 of 100 · moderate
1 Share of the immigration officer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the airport security officer profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 13 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A immigration officer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a airport security officer background worth leading with.
- already held check travel documentation assisting and caring
- already held conduct frisk assisting and caring
- already held illegal substances services
- already held detain offenders assisting and caring
- already held investigation research methods services
- already held ensure law application assisting and caring
All 13 carried skills, including the 6 the immigration officer role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 10 missing skills fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held apply immigration law required
- required, not held handle surveillance equipment required
- optional, not held apply information security policies optional
- optional, not held guide people to holding areas optional
- required, not held provide immigration advice required
- optional, not held instruct public optional
- optional, not held present evidence optional
- optional, not held write work-related reports optional
- required, not held immigration law required
- optional, not held undertake inspections optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a immigration officer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 apply immigration law skill · sector specific
- 02 handle surveillance equipment skill · cross sector
- 03 immigration law knowledge · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 13 skills that carry over
- already held check official documents skill
- already held check travel documentation skill
- already held conduct research interview skill
- already held ensure law application skill
- already held identify security threats skill
- already held respond to enquiries skill
- already held apply knowledge of human behaviour skill
- already held conduct frisk skill
- already held detain offenders skill
- already held illegal substances knowledge
- already held investigation research methods knowledge
- already held maintain operational communications skill
- already held use different communication channels skill
6 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held apply information security policies optional
- optional, not held guide people to holding areas optional
- optional, not held instruct public optional
- optional, not held present evidence optional
- optional, not held undertake inspections optional
- optional, not held write work-related reports optional
26 held skills the immigration officer role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role airport safety regulations knowledge
- not needed by the target role apply airport standards and regulations skill
- not needed by the target role apply self-defence skill
- not needed by the target role carry out evacuation of airport in an emergency skill
- not needed by the target role check implementation security plan skill
- not needed by the target role conduct airport safety inspections skill
- not needed by the target role conduct airport security screening skill
- not needed by the target role ensure compliance with airport security measures skill
- not needed by the target role ensure compliance with policies skill
- not needed by the target role ensure public safety and security skill
- not needed by the target role execute working instructions skill
- not needed by the target role identify airport safety hazards skill
- not needed by the target role identify terrorism threats skill
- not needed by the target role inspect cargo skill
- not needed by the target role legal use-of-force knowledge
- not needed by the target role manage technical security systems skill
- not needed by the target role perform body searches skill
- not needed by the target role perform risk analysis skill
- not needed by the target role perform security checks skill
- not needed by the target role plan shifts of employees skill
- not needed by the target role provide first aid skill
- not needed by the target role report airport security incidents skill
- not needed by the target role train employees skill
- not needed by the target role update procedure instructions skill
- not needed by the target role use X-ray machines skill
- not needed by the target role write situation 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.
- required, not held immigration law required
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.