Customs and excise officer to international forwarding operations coordinator
A customs and excise officer already meets 29% of what the international forwarding operations coordinator role asks for. The move turns on 12 required skills not yet in the profile.
68.9/ 100
1 How much of what an international forwarding operations coordinator is expected to do is already part of a customs and excise 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 international forwarding operations coordinator role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
An international forwarding operations coordinator role treats 5 of its required skills as things a customs and excise officer already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- control trade commercial documentation
- coordinate import transportation activities
- international business
- manage import export licenses
- write work-related reports
What stands in the way is 12 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 6 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. An international forwarding operations coordinator role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a customs and excise officer background worth leading with.
- already held manage import export licenses information skills
- already held coordinate import transportation activities management skills
- already held control trade commercial documentation assisting and caring
- already held international business business, administration and law
- already held write work-related reports communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held use different communication channels communication, collaboration and creativity
All 6 carried skills, including the 5 the international forwarding operations coordinator role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 16 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.
- still to learn foster relationships with various types of carrier required
- still to learn liaise with transportation services required
- still to learn work in a logistics team required
- still to learn write routine reports required
- optional, not held perform services in a flexible manner optional
- optional, not held show intercultural awareness optional
- still to learn assess carriers required
- still to learn coordinate export transportation activities required
- still to learn manage carriers required
- still to learn set import export strategies required
- optional, not held tolerate stress optional
- still to learn respond to requests for logistics services from all over the world required
- still to learn apply procedures to ensure cargo complies with customs regulations required
- still to learn perform ICT troubleshooting required
- optional, not held have computer literacy optional
- still to learn analyse work-related written reports required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries an international forwarding operations coordinator role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 respond to requests for logistics services from all over the world practise this
- 02 apply procedures to ensure cargo complies with customs regulations practise this
- 03 assess carriers practise this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 6 skills that carry over
- already held control trade commercial documentation skill
- already held coordinate import transportation activities skill
- already held international business knowledge
- already held manage import export licenses skill
- already held write work-related reports skill
- already held use different communication channels skill
4 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held tolerate stress optional
- optional, not held have computer literacy optional
- optional, not held perform services in a flexible manner optional
- optional, not held show intercultural awareness optional
24 held skills the international forwarding operations coordinator role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role calculate tax skill
- not needed by the target role check official documents skill
- not needed by the target role comply with legal regulations skill
- not needed by the target role conduct research interview skill
- not needed by the target role give instructions to staff skill
- not needed by the target role handle surveillance equipment skill
- not needed by the target role illegal substances knowledge
- not needed by the target role import export regulations of dangerous chemicals knowledge
- not needed by the target role international import export regulations knowledge
- not needed by the target role international taxation of transfer prices knowledge
- not needed by the target role maintain operational communications skill
- not needed by the target role patrol areas skill
- not needed by the target role prepare documentation for international shipping skill
- not needed by the target role present evidence skill
- not needed by the target role process payments skill
- not needed by the target role provide advice to clients in terms of export restrictions skill
- not needed by the target role provide advice to clients in terms of import restrictions skill
- not needed by the target role regulations for international transportation knowledge
- not needed by the target role respond to enquiries skill
- not needed by the target role select items for auction skill
- not needed by the target role tax legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role train animals for professional purposes skill
- not needed by the target role transport dangerous goods skill
- not needed by the target role undertake inspections skill
Other moves recorded from customs and excise officer
Common questions about this move
Can a customs and excise officer become an international forwarding operations coordinator?
Yes, and it is a substantial move. A customs and excise officer already covers 29% of what an international forwarding operations coordinator is expected to do: 6 skills carry over, 5 of which the international forwarding operations coordinator role treats as required.
What skills does a customs and excise officer need to become an international forwarding operations coordinator?
12 required skills are missing, plus 4 optional ones. They fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by communication, collaboration and creativity. The single most important is respond to requests for logistics services from all over the world.
How hard is the move from customs and excise officer to international forwarding operations coordinator?
Its learning distance is 68.9 out of 100, which is the substantial band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
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.