cultural archive managertocollection manager
A cultural archive manager already meets 80% of what the collection manager role asks for. The move turns on 3 required skills not yet in the profile.
80%
24.2/ 100
1 Share of the collection manager role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the cultural archive manager 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 collection manager role treats 17 of its required skills as things a cultural archive manager already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- advise on loans of art work for exhibitions
- art history
- assess museum object condition
- collection management software
- compile detailed collection inventory
- conservation techniques
What stands in the way is 3 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 22 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A collection manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a cultural archive manager background worth leading with.
- already held compile detailed collection inventory information skills
- already held establish high standards of collections care assisting and caring
- already held implement risk management for works of art information skills
- already held supervise artefact movement handling and moving
- already held advise on loans of art work for exhibitions management skills
- already held assess museum object condition information skills
All 22 carried skills, including the 17 the collection manager role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 8 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 interact with an audience required
- optional, not held contribute to specialised publications optional
- optional, not held train employees optional
- required, not held digitization required
- optional, not held museology optional
- required, not held use ICT resources to solve work related tasks required
- optional, not held art-historical values optional
- optional, not held arrange interlibrary loans optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a collection manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 use ICT resources to solve work related tasks skill · sector specific
- 02 digitization knowledge · cross sector
- 03 interact with an audience skill · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 22 skills that carry over
- already held advise on loans of art work for exhibitions skill
- already held art history knowledge
- already held assess museum object condition skill
- already held collection management software knowledge
- already held compile detailed collection inventory skill
- already held conservation techniques knowledge
- already held cope with challenging demands skill
- already held create collection conservation plan skill
- already held document museum collection skill
- already held establish high standards of collections care skill
- already held handle artworks skill
- already held implement risk management for works of art skill
- already held monitor museum environment skill
- already held museum databases knowledge
- already held provide project information on exhibitions skill
- already held respect cultural differences in the field of exhibition skill
- already held supervise artefact movement skill
- already held coach employees skill
- already held coordinate operational activities skill
- already held evaluate art quality skill
- already held manage budgets skill
- already held present exhibition skill
5 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held contribute to specialised publications optional
- optional, not held museology optional
- optional, not held arrange interlibrary loans optional
- optional, not held art-historical values optional
- optional, not held train employees optional
12 held skills the collection manager role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role art collections knowledge
- not needed by the target role budgetary principles knowledge
- not needed by the target role collection management knowledge
- not needed by the target role identify process improvements skill
- not needed by the target role manage archive skill
- not needed by the target role manage digital archives skill
- not needed by the target role manage staff skill
- not needed by the target role monitor artistic activities skill
- not needed by the target role perform clerical duties skill
- not needed by the target role project management knowledge
- not needed by the target role study a collection skill
- not needed by the target role supervise work 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.
- required, not held digitization required
- optional, not held museology optional
- optional, not held art-historical values optional
Other moves recorded from cultural archive manager
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.