Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

astrologertolife coach

A astrologer already meets 28% of what the life coach role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.

From astrologer
28%
Overlap1
To life coach
10 Skills carried over
10 Required, not held
65.2 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

28%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

65.2/ 100

1 Share of the life coach role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the astrologer 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.

Why

Why this move works

A life coach role treats 2 of its required skills as things a astrologer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • give advice on personal matters
  • maintain customer service

What stands in the way is 10 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 10 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A life coach role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a astrologer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held give advice on personal matters assisting and caring
  • already held assess character management skills
  • already held rhetoric social sciences, journalism and information
  • already held manage a small-to-medium business management skills
  • already held administer appointments management skills
  • already held maintain customer service communication, collaboration and creativity

All 10 carried skills, including the 2 the life coach role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 17 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 communication, collaboration and creativity 8 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held assist clients with personal development required
  • required, not held maintain relationship with customers required
  • required, not held coach clients required
  • required, not held communicate with customers required
  • required, not held counsel clients required
  • required, not held create solutions to problems required
  • required, not held listen actively required
  • required, not held use consulting techniques required
  • optional, not held facilitate job market access optional
  • optional, not held perform lectures optional
  • optional, not held give constructive feedback optional
  • optional, not held provide career counselling optional
  • optional, not held teach communication to clients optional
02 assisting and caring 1 required
  • required, not held help clients make decisions during counselling sessions required
03 information skills 1 required
  • required, not held evaluate clients' progress required
04 management skills 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held identify training needs optional
  • optional, not held maintain professional administration optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a life coach role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 10 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held give advice on personal matters skill
  • already held maintain customer service skill
  • already held administer appointments skill
  • already held assess character skill
  • already held develop professional network skill
  • already held keep personal administration skill
  • already held manage a small-to-medium business skill
  • already held manage personal professional development skill
  • already held rhetoric knowledge
  • already held use different communication channels skill
7 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held facilitate job market access optional
  • optional, not held perform lectures optional
  • optional, not held give constructive feedback optional
  • optional, not held identify training needs optional
  • optional, not held maintain professional administration optional
  • optional, not held provide career counselling optional
  • optional, not held teach communication to clients optional
13 held skills the life coach role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role astrology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role astronomy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role astropsychology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role communicate by telephone skill
  • not needed by the target role elective astrology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role horary astrology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role interview people skill
  • not needed by the target role numerology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role observe celestial objects skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare horoscopes skill
  • not needed by the target role prospect new customers skill
  • not needed by the target role specialised astrology software knowledge
  • not needed by the target role write horoscopes skill
Index
Note

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.