bus route supervisortotaxi controller
A bus route supervisor already meets 22% of what the taxi controller role asks for. The move turns on 14 required skills not yet in the profile.
22%
74.2/ 100
1 Share of the taxi controller role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the bus route supervisor 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 this move works
A taxi controller role treats 4 of its required skills as things a bus route supervisor already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- communicate verbal instructions
- match vehicles with routes
- monitor drivers
- road traffic laws
What stands in the way is 14 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 5 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A taxi controller role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a bus route supervisor background worth leading with.
- already held monitor drivers management skills
- already held match vehicles with routes management skills
- already held communicate verbal instructions communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held road traffic laws business, administration and law
- already held have computer literacy working with computers
All 5 carried skills, including the 4 the taxi controller role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 17 missing skills fall into 5 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 use codes to communicate with taxi drivers required
- required, not held relay messages through radio and telephone systems required
- required, not held communicate by telephone required
- required, not held follow up complaint reports required
- required, not held handle customer complaints required
- required, not held listen actively required
- required, not held use different communication channels required
- optional, not held perform services in a flexible manner optional
- required, not held assign taxi fares required
- required, not held log times of taxis required
- required, not held read maps required
- required, not held control taxi schedules required
- required, not held consider economic criteria in decision making required
- required, not held operate radio dispatch systems for taxis required
- optional, not held drive in urban areas optional
- optional, not held provide high-end driving services optional
- required, not held passenger transport regulations required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a taxi controller role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 assign taxi fares skill · occupation specific
- 02 control taxi schedules skill · occupation specific
- 03 log times of taxis 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 5 skills that carry over
- already held communicate verbal instructions skill
- already held match vehicles with routes skill
- already held monitor drivers skill
- already held road traffic laws knowledge
- already held have computer literacy skill
3 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held drive in urban areas optional
- optional, not held provide high-end driving services optional
- optional, not held perform services in a flexible manner optional
21 held skills the taxi controller role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role analyse work-related written reports skill
- not needed by the target role comply with policies for trolley bus driving skill
- not needed by the target role conduct drug abuse tests skill
- not needed by the target role ensure implementation of safe driving practices skill
- not needed by the target role geographical routes knowledge
- not needed by the target role give instructions to staff skill
- not needed by the target role investigate road accidents skill
- not needed by the target role keep task records skill
- not needed by the target role manage assignment of bus routes skill
- not needed by the target role mechanics of trolley buses knowledge
- not needed by the target role monitor condition of local roads skill
- not needed by the target role national road network knowledge
- not needed by the target role plan schedule skill
- not needed by the target role prepare road directions skill
- not needed by the target role prepare transportation routes skill
- not needed by the target role recruit bus drivers skill
- not needed by the target role road transport legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role schedule and dispatch drivers skill
- not needed by the target role supervise movement of passengers skill
- not needed by the target role train employees skill
- not needed by the target role write work-related 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 passenger transport regulations required
Other moves recorded from bus route supervisor
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.