Digital games developer to industrial mobile devices software developer
A digital games developer already meets 74% of what the industrial mobile devices software developer role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.
38.5/ 100
1 How much of what an industrial mobile devices software developer is expected to do is already part of a digital games developer’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 industrial mobile devices software developer role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
An industrial mobile devices software developer role treats 13 of its required skills as things a digital games developer already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- ICT debugging tools
- Internet of Things
- analyse software specifications
- computer programming
- create flowchart diagram
- debug software
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 · What you already bring
Of the 68 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. An industrial mobile devices software developer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a digital games developer background worth leading with.
- already held Xcode information and communication technologies (icts)
- already held adapt to changes in technological development plans communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held use concurrent programming working with computers
- already held use functional programming working with computers
- already held KDevelop information and communication technologies (icts)
- already held use logic programming working with computers
All 68 carried skills, including the 13 the industrial mobile devices software developer role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 21 missing skills fall into 6 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 mobile operating systems required
- still to learn industrial software required
- optional, not held Android (mobile operating systems) optional
- optional, not held BlackBerry optional
- optional, not held CoffeeScript optional
- optional, not held Erlang optional
- optional, not held Smalltalk (computer programming) optional
- optional, not held iOS optional
- optional, not held mobile device software frameworks optional
- optional, not held trading software optional
- optional, not held screen reader optional
- still to learn design application interfaces required
- still to learn use different communication channels required
- still to learn use an application-specific interface required
- optional, not held migrate existing data optional
- optional, not held provide connected car solutions optional
- optional, not held use word processing software optional
- still to learn embedded systems required
- optional, not held collect customer feedback on applications optional
- optional, not held identify customer requirements optional
- optional, not held ICT security legislation optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries an industrial mobile devices software developer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 design application interfaces practise this
- 02 embedded systems study this
- 03 mobile operating systems study this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 68 skills that carry over
- already held ICT debugging tools knowledge
- already held Internet of Things knowledge
- already held analyse software specifications skill
- already held computer programming knowledge
- already held create flowchart diagram skill
- already held debug software skill
- already held develop software prototype skill
- already held integrated development environment software knowledge
- already held interpret technical texts skill
- already held tools for software configuration management knowledge
- already held use software design patterns skill
- already held use software libraries skill
- already held utilise computer-aided software engineering tools skill
- already held ABAP knowledge
- already held AJAX knowledge
- already held APL knowledge
- already held ASP.NET knowledge
- already held Ansible knowledge
- already held Apache Maven knowledge
- already held Assembly (computer programming) knowledge
- already held C# knowledge
- already held C++ knowledge
- already held COBOL knowledge
- already held Common Lisp knowledge
- already held Eclipse (integrated development environment software) knowledge
- already held Groovy knowledge
- already held Haskell knowledge
- already held Java (computer programming) knowledge
- already held JavaScript knowledge
- already held Jenkins (tools for software configuration management) knowledge
- already held KDevelop knowledge
- already held Lisp knowledge
- already held MATLAB knowledge
- already held ML (computer programming) knowledge
- already held Microsoft Visual C++ knowledge
- already held Objective-C knowledge
- already held OpenEdge Advanced Business Language knowledge
- already held PHP knowledge
- already held Pascal (computer programming) knowledge
- already held Perl knowledge
- already held Prolog (computer programming) knowledge
- already held Puppet (tools for software configuration management) knowledge
- already held Python (computer programming) knowledge
- already held R knowledge
- already held Ruby (computer programming) knowledge
- already held SAP R3 knowledge
- already held SAS language knowledge
- already held STAF knowledge
- already held Salt (tools for software configuration management) knowledge
- already held Scala knowledge
- already held Scratch (computer programming) knowledge
- already held Swift (computer programming) knowledge
- already held TypeScript knowledge
- already held VBScript knowledge
- already held Visual Basic knowledge
- already held World Wide Web Consortium standards knowledge
- already held Xcode knowledge
- already held adapt to changes in technological development plans skill
- already held design user interface skill
- already held develop creative ideas skill
- already held integrate system components skill
- already held object-oriented modelling knowledge
- already held software anomalies knowledge
- already held use automatic programming skill
- already held use concurrent programming skill
- already held use functional programming skill
- already held use logic programming skill
- already held use object-oriented programming skill
15 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held Android (mobile operating systems) optional
- optional, not held BlackBerry optional
- optional, not held CoffeeScript optional
- optional, not held Erlang optional
- optional, not held ICT security legislation optional
- optional, not held Smalltalk (computer programming) optional
- optional, not held iOS optional
- optional, not held migrate existing data optional
- optional, not held mobile device software frameworks optional
- optional, not held provide connected car solutions optional
- optional, not held trading software optional
- optional, not held collect customer feedback on applications optional
- optional, not held identify customer requirements optional
- optional, not held screen reader optional
- optional, not held use word processing software optional
14 held skills the industrial mobile devices software developer role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role 3D lighting knowledge
- not needed by the target role 3D texturing knowledge
- not needed by the target role Joomla knowledge
- not needed by the target role apply 3D imaging techniques skill
- not needed by the target role assist multimedia operator skill
- not needed by the target role augmented reality knowledge
- not needed by the target role computer graphics knowledge
- not needed by the target role develop digital content skill
- not needed by the target role develop virtual game engine skill
- not needed by the target role digital game genres knowledge
- not needed by the target role execute analytical mathematical calculations skill
- not needed by the target role interactive media knowledge
- not needed by the target role render 3D images skill
- not needed by the target role trigonometry knowledge
13 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- still to learn embedded systems required
- still to learn mobile operating systems required
- still to learn industrial software required
- optional, not held Android (mobile operating systems) optional
- optional, not held BlackBerry optional
- optional, not held CoffeeScript optional
- optional, not held Erlang optional
- optional, not held ICT security legislation optional
- optional, not held Smalltalk (computer programming) optional
- optional, not held iOS optional
- optional, not held mobile device software frameworks optional
- optional, not held trading software optional
- optional, not held screen reader optional
Common questions about this move
Can a digital games developer become an industrial mobile devices software developer?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. A digital games developer already covers 74% of what an industrial mobile devices software developer is expected to do: 68 skills carry over, 13 of which the industrial mobile devices software developer role treats as required.
What skills does a digital games developer need to become an industrial mobile devices software developer?
6 required skills are missing, plus 15 optional ones. They fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by information and communication technologies (icts). The single most important is design application interfaces.
How hard is the move from digital games developer to industrial mobile devices software developer?
Its learning distance is 38.5 out of 100, which is the moderate 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.