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

astrologertomedium

A astrologer already meets 41% of what the medium role asks for. The move turns on 7 required skills not yet in the profile.

From astrologer
41%
Overlap1
To medium
10 Skills carried over
7 Required, not held
55.8 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

41%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

55.8/ 100

1 Share of the medium 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 medium role treats 5 of its required skills as things a astrologer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • develop professional network
  • maintain customer service
  • manage personal professional development
  • prospect new customers
  • rhetoric

What stands in the way is 7 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 medium 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 rhetoric social sciences, journalism and information
  • already held prospect new customers communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held manage a small-to-medium business management skills
  • already held interview people communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held administer appointments management skills
  • already held maintain customer service communication, collaboration and creativity

All 10 carried skills, including the 5 the medium role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 15 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 4 required, 6 supplementary
  • required, not held use séance tools required
  • required, not held counsel clients required
  • required, not held listen actively required
  • required, not held use consulting techniques required
  • optional, not held apply crisis intervention optional
  • optional, not held perform lectures optional
  • optional, not held perform live optional
  • optional, not held coach clients optional
  • optional, not held entertain people optional
  • optional, not held perform improvisation optional
02 arts and humanities 2 required
  • required, not held occultism required
  • required, not held spiritualism required
03 assisting and caring 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held maintain privacy of service users required
  • optional, not held provide spiritual counselling optional
04 social sciences, journalism and information 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held psychology optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a medium 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 develop professional network skill
  • already held maintain customer service skill
  • already held manage personal professional development skill
  • already held prospect new customers skill
  • already held rhetoric knowledge
  • already held administer appointments skill
  • already held interview people skill
  • already held keep personal administration skill
  • already held manage a small-to-medium business skill
  • already held use different communication channels skill
8 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held apply crisis intervention optional
  • optional, not held perform lectures optional
  • optional, not held perform live optional
  • optional, not held coach clients optional
  • optional, not held entertain people optional
  • optional, not held perform improvisation optional
  • optional, not held provide spiritual counselling optional
  • optional, not held psychology optional
13 held skills the medium role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role assess character skill
  • 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 give advice on personal matters skill
  • not needed by the target role horary astrology knowledge
  • 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 specialised astrology software knowledge
  • not needed by the target role write horoscopes skill
3 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held occultism required
  • required, not held spiritualism required
  • optional, not held psychology optional
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.