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

babysittertochild care worker

A babysitter already meets 78% of what the child care worker role asks for. The move turns on 2 required skills not yet in the profile.

From babysitter
78%
Overlap1
To child care worker
23 Skills carried over
2 Required, not held
23.5 Difficulty2
adjacent 0–30
moderate 30–55
substantial 55–75
career change 75–100
this move, 23.5

This move: 23.5 of 100 · adjacent

1 Share of the child care worker role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the babysitter 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

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 23 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A child care worker role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a babysitter background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held babysitting health and welfare
  • already held baby care health and welfare
  • already held carry out wound care assisting and caring
  • already held play with children assisting and caring
  • already held assist children with homework assisting and caring
  • already held prepare ready-made dishes assisting and caring

All 23 carried skills, including the 8 the child care worker role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 7 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 assisting and caring 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held determine child welfare required
  • optional, not held support traumatised children optional
  • optional, not held relate empathetically optional
02 health and welfare 1 required
  • required, not held social development required
03 management skills 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held plan youth activities optional
  • optional, not held tolerate stress optional
04 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held work in a multicultural environment in health care optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 2 entries a child care worker 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 23 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held assist children in developing personal skills skill
  • already held attend to children's basic physical needs skill
  • already held communicate with youth skill
  • already held handle chemical cleaning agents skill
  • already held maintain relations with children's parents skill
  • already held play with children skill
  • already held supervise children skill
  • already held workplace sanitation knowledge
  • already held assess the development of youth skill
  • already held assist children with homework skill
  • already held baby care knowledge
  • already held babysitting knowledge
  • already held carry out wound care skill
  • already held clean rooms skill
  • already held common children's diseases knowledge
  • already held disability care knowledge
  • already held handle children's problems skill
  • already held pedagogy knowledge
  • already held prepare ready-made dishes skill
  • already held prepare sandwiches skill
  • already held provide first aid skill
  • already held support children's wellbeing skill
  • already held support the positiveness of youths skill
5 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held plan youth activities optional
  • optional, not held support traumatised children optional
  • optional, not held tolerate stress optional
  • optional, not held relate empathetically optional
  • optional, not held work in a multicultural environment in health care optional
6 held skills the child care worker role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role clean surfaces skill
  • not needed by the target role communicate by telephone skill
  • not needed by the target role feed pets skill
  • not needed by the target role iron textiles skill
  • not needed by the target role use cooking techniques skill
  • not needed by the target role use food preparation techniques 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held social development required
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.