archivisttoinformation manager
A archivist already meets 24% of what the information manager role asks for. The move turns on 14 required skills not yet in the profile.
This move: 75.5 of 100 · career change
1 Share of the information manager role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the archivist 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 9 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A information manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a archivist background worth leading with.
- already held manage information access aids information skills
- already held create semantic trees information skills
- already held use software for data preservation working with computers
- already held perform customer management assisting and caring
- already held digitise documents working with computers
- already held manage digital documents working with computers
All 9 carried skills, including the 3 the information manager role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 21 missing skills fall into 7 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 cooperate to resolve information issues required
- required, not held assess informational needs required
- required, not held design information system required
- required, not held develop solutions to information issues required
- required, not held corporate sustainability required
- required, not held data quality assessment required
- required, not held copyright legislation required
- optional, not held organisational learning optional
- required, not held analyse information systems required
- required, not held evaluate project plans required
- required, not held manage data required
- optional, not held analyse big data optional
- required, not held develop organisational information goals required
- required, not held develop information standards required
- optional, not held manage schedule of tasks optional
- optional, not held supervise daily information operations optional
- required, not held manage digital libraries required
- required, not held perform data mining required
- optional, not held maintain information network hardware optional
- optional, not held manage digital identity optional
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a information manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 analyse information systems skill · occupation specific
- 02 cooperate to resolve information issues skill · occupation specific
- 03 develop organisational information goals skill · occupation specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 9 skills that carry over
- already held manage information access aids skill
- already held perform customer management skill
- already held recruit employees skill
- already held create semantic trees skill
- already held digitise documents skill
- already held manage budgets skill
- already held manage digital documents skill
- already held use databases skill
- already held use software for data preservation skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
- optional, not held knowledge base optional
7 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held organisational learning optional
- optional, not held analyse big data optional
- optional, not held knowledge base optional
- optional, not held maintain information network hardware optional
- optional, not held manage digital identity optional
- optional, not held manage schedule of tasks optional
- optional, not held supervise daily information operations optional
18 held skills the information manager role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role aid archive users with their enquiries skill
- not needed by the target role appraise historical documents skill
- not needed by the target role collection management knowledge
- not needed by the target role conservation techniques knowledge
- not needed by the target role contextualise records collection skill
- not needed by the target role coordinate educational programmes skill
- not needed by the target role develop classification systems skill
- not needed by the target role digital curation knowledge
- not needed by the target role digitization knowledge
- not needed by the target role facilitate access to information skill
- not needed by the target role manage archive users guidelines skill
- not needed by the target role manage digital archives skill
- not needed by the target role manage human resources skill
- not needed by the target role perform records management skill
- not needed by the target role respect data protection principles skill
- not needed by the target role store archival documents skill
- not needed by the target role study a collection skill
- not needed by the target role write scientific publications skill
5 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 corporate sustainability required
- required, not held data quality assessment required
- required, not held copyright legislation required
- optional, not held organisational learning optional
- optional, not held knowledge base optional
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.