Career Overlap Transition record
RecordMove

Chief data officer to data entry clerk

A chief data officer already meets 45% of what the data entry clerk role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional
From chief data officer
45 % overlap
Partial match
To data entry clerk
16 You already bring
6 Still to learn
34 Skills in the target role2
Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

53.5/ 100

1 How much of what a data entry clerk is expected to do is already part of a chief data officer’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the data entry clerk role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.

Why

Why this move works

A data entry clerk role treats 4 of its required skills as things a chief data officer already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

  • apply information security policies
  • database
  • query languages
  • resource description framework query language

What stands in the way is 6 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 16 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A data entry clerk role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a chief data officer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held manage ICT data classification working with computers
  • already held database information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held data models information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held apply information security policies assisting and caring
  • already held LDAP information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held MDX information and communication technologies (icts)

All 16 carried skills, including the 4 the data entry clerk role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 18 missing skills fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.

Skill to pick up Tier
01 information skills 3 required, 1 supplementary
  • still to learn maintain data entry requirements required
  • still to learn apply statistical analysis techniques required
  • still to learn process data required
  • optional, not held manage data collection systems optional
02 working with computers 2 required, 7 supplementary
  • still to learn perform data cleansing required
  • still to learn use word processing software required
  • optional, not held establish data processes optional
  • optional, not held implement data warehousing techniques optional
  • optional, not held normalise data optional
  • optional, not held use an application-specific interface optional
  • optional, not held implement data quality processes optional
  • optional, not held manage digital documents optional
  • optional, not held use spreadsheets software optional
03 social sciences, journalism and information 1 required
  • still to learn documentation types required
04 information and communication technologies (icts) 3 supplementary
  • optional, not held ABBYY FineReader optional
  • optional, not held OmniPage optional
  • optional, not held optical character recognition software optional
05 management skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held apply organisational techniques optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a data entry clerk 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 16 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held apply information security policies skill
  • already held database knowledge
  • already held query languages knowledge
  • already held resource description framework query language knowledge
  • already held LDAP knowledge
  • already held LINQ knowledge
  • already held MDX knowledge
  • already held N1QL knowledge
  • already held SPARQL knowledge
  • already held XQuery knowledge
  • already held data models knowledge
  • already held data storage knowledge
  • already held information confidentiality knowledge
  • already held manage ICT data classification skill
  • already held manage data skill
  • already held use databases skill
12 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to pick up Tier
  • optional, not held ABBYY FineReader optional
  • optional, not held OmniPage optional
  • optional, not held establish data processes optional
  • optional, not held implement data warehousing techniques optional
  • optional, not held manage data collection systems optional
  • optional, not held normalise data optional
  • optional, not held use an application-specific interface optional
  • optional, not held apply organisational techniques optional
  • optional, not held implement data quality processes optional
  • optional, not held manage digital documents optional
  • optional, not held optical character recognition software optional
  • optional, not held use spreadsheets software optional
45 held skills the data entry clerk role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role CA Datacom/DB knowledge
  • not needed by the target role DB2 knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Filemaker (database management systems) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role IBM Informix knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Microsoft Access knowledge
  • not needed by the target role MySQL knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ObjectStore knowledge
  • not needed by the target role OpenEdge Database knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Oracle Relational Database knowledge
  • not needed by the target role PostgreSQL knowledge
  • not needed by the target role SQL Server knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Teradata Database knowledge
  • not needed by the target role apply change management skill
  • not needed by the target role business intelligence knowledge
  • not needed by the target role business processes knowledge
  • not needed by the target role cloud technologies knowledge
  • not needed by the target role coordinate technological activities skill
  • not needed by the target role data engineering knowledge
  • not needed by the target role data ethics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role data mining knowledge
  • not needed by the target role data quality assessment knowledge
  • not needed by the target role data science knowledge
  • not needed by the target role database development tools knowledge
  • not needed by the target role database management systems knowledge
  • not needed by the target role decision support systems knowledge
  • not needed by the target role define data quality criteria skill
  • not needed by the target role define technology strategy skill
  • not needed by the target role deliver visual presentation of data skill
  • not needed by the target role develop information security strategy skill
  • not needed by the target role image recognition knowledge
  • not needed by the target role implement ICT risk management skill
  • not needed by the target role information architecture knowledge
  • not needed by the target role information categorisation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role information extraction knowledge
  • not needed by the target role information security strategy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role information structure knowledge
  • not needed by the target role integrate ICT data skill
  • not needed by the target role make data-driven decisions skill
  • not needed by the target role manage ICT data architecture skill
  • not needed by the target role manage business knowledge skill

5 further entries not listed here

4 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 pick up Tier
  • still to learn documentation types required
  • optional, not held ABBYY FineReader optional
  • optional, not held OmniPage optional
  • optional, not held optical character recognition software optional
Index

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FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can a chief data officer become a data entry clerk?

Yes, and it is a moderate move. A chief data officer already covers 45% of what a data entry clerk is expected to do: 16 skills carry over, 4 of which the data entry clerk role treats as required.

What skills does a chief data officer need to become a data entry clerk?

6 required skills are missing, plus 12 optional ones. They fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by information skills. The single most important is documentation types.

How hard is the move from chief data officer to data entry clerk?

Its learning distance is 53.5 out of 100, which is the moderate band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.

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.