carriage drivertotrolley bus driver
A carriage driver already meets 25% of what the trolley bus driver role asks for. The move turns on 23 required skills not yet in the profile.
25%
78.5/ 100
1 Share of the trolley bus driver role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the carriage driver 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 trolley bus driver role treats 8 of its required skills as things a carriage driver already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- assist disable passengers
- assist passengers
- communicate with customers
- drive in urban areas
- ensure vehicle operability
- focus on passengers
What stands in the way is 23 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 8 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A trolley bus driver role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a carriage driver background worth leading with.
- already held tolerate sitting for long periods management skills
- already held focus on passengers assisting and caring
- already held assist disable passengers assisting and caring
- already held ensure vehicle operability working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held assist passengers assisting and caring
- already held drive in urban areas working with machinery and specialised equipment
All 8 carried skills, including the 8 the trolley bus driver role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 27 missing skills fall into 9 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 adhere to transportation work schedule required
- required, not held communicate clearly with passengers required
- required, not held apply conflict management required
- required, not held perform services in a flexible manner required
- required, not held stay alert required
- required, not held use different communication channels required
- required, not held help to control passenger behaviour during emergency situations required
- required, not held provide information to passengers required
- required, not held interpret traffic signals required
- required, not held provide first aid required
- required, not held mechanics of trolley buses required
- required, not held passenger transport regulations required
- required, not held health and safety measures in transportation required
- required, not held transport topography required
- required, not held comply with policies for trolley bus driving required
- required, not held perform defensive driving required
- required, not held use communication equipment required
- required, not held ensure vehicles are equipped with accessibility equipment required
- required, not held keep time accurately required
- optional, not held read maps optional
- required, not held clean road vehicles required
- optional, not held execute vehicle maintenance optional
- optional, not held lift heavy weights optional
3 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a trolley bus driver role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 electrical operation of trolley buses knowledge · occupation specific
- 02 adhere to transportation work schedule skill · sector specific
- 03 clean road vehicles skill · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 8 skills that carry over
- already held assist disable passengers skill
- already held assist passengers skill
- already held communicate with customers skill
- already held drive in urban areas skill
- already held ensure vehicle operability skill
- already held focus on passengers skill
- already held road traffic laws knowledge
- already held tolerate sitting for long periods skill
The 3 learning areas not shown above
- required, not held tolerate stress required
- optional, not held handle petty cash optional
- required, not held electrical operation of trolley buses required
- required, not held operate GPS systems required
4 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held execute vehicle maintenance optional
- optional, not held handle petty cash optional
- optional, not held lift heavy weights optional
- optional, not held read maps optional
12 held skills the trolley bus driver role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role animal behaviour knowledge
- not needed by the target role clean horse's legs skill
- not needed by the target role drive carriage skill
- not needed by the target role ensure passenger comfort skill
- not needed by the target role groom animals skill
- not needed by the target role harness horses to carriage skill
- not needed by the target role obey traffic rules skill
- not needed by the target role process payments skill
- not needed by the target role provide care for horses skill
- not needed by the target role provide customers with price information skill
- not needed by the target role train horses skill
- not needed by the target role transport horses 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 electrical operation of trolley buses required
- required, not held mechanics of trolley buses required
- required, not held passenger transport regulations required
- required, not held health and safety measures in transportation required
- required, not held transport topography required
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.