Table 1Transition record

embedded system designertoICT application configurator

A embedded system designer already meets 56% of what the ICT application configurator role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.

From embedded system designer

56%

Overlap1

To ICT application configurator

49 Skills carried over

10 Required, not held

56.2 Difficulty2

Career overlap Partial match

56%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

56.2/ 100

Easy adjacentmoderatesubstantialcareer change Hard

1 Share of the ICT application configurator role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the embedded system designer 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

Why this move works

A ICT application configurator role treats 7 of its required skills as things a embedded system designer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

analyse software specifications
build business relationships
collect customer feedback on applications
computer programming
create flowchart diagram
digital systems

What stands in the way is 10 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 49 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A ICT application configurator role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a embedded system designer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area

already held create flowchart diagram communication, collaboration and creativity
already held Ansible information and communication technologies (icts)
already held tools for software configuration management information and communication technologies (icts)
already held Apache Maven information and communication technologies (icts)
already held Puppet (tools for software configuration management) information and communication technologies (icts)
already held STAF information and communication technologies (icts)

All 49 carried skills, including the 7 the ICT application configurator role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 30 missing skills fall into 8 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.

Skill to acquire Tier

01 working with computers 6 required, 9 supplementary

required, not held debug software required
required, not held develop software prototype required
required, not held integrate ICT data required
required, not held integrate system components required
required, not held migrate existing data required
required, not held use software libraries required

optional, not held do cloud refactoring optional
optional, not held implement ICT security policies optional
optional, not held use an application-specific interface optional
optional, not held use automatic programming optional
optional, not held use concurrent programming optional
optional, not held use functional programming optional
optional, not held use logic programming optional
optional, not held use object-oriented programming optional
optional, not held use back-up and recovery tools optional

02 information and communication technologies (icts) 2 required, 4 supplementary

required, not held ICT debugging tools required
required, not held integrated development environment software required

optional, not held Eclipse (integrated development environment software) optional
optional, not held KDevelop optional
optional, not held Xcode optional
optional, not held inter-organisational middleware system optional

03 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 1 supplementary

required, not held use software design patterns required

optional, not held create solutions to problems optional

04 management skills 1 required

required, not held develop automated migration methods required

05 business, administration and law 2 supplementary

optional, not held consultation methods optional
optional, not held legal requirements of ICT products optional

06 information skills 2 supplementary

optional, not held manage cloud data and storage optional
optional, not held apply statistical analysis techniques optional

2 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a ICT application configurator 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 49 skills that carry over

Skill Type

already held analyse software specifications skill
already held build business relationships skill
already held collect customer feedback on applications skill
already held computer programming knowledge
already held create flowchart diagram skill
already held digital systems knowledge
already held tools for software configuration management knowledge
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 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 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 provide ICT consulting advice skill
already held utilise computer-aided software engineering tools skill

The 2 learning areas not shown above

Skill to acquire Tier

07 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 supplementary

optional, not held interfacing techniques optional

08 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 supplementary

optional, not held statistics optional

20 supplementary skills, helpful but not required

Skill to acquire Tier

optional, not held Eclipse (integrated development environment software) optional
optional, not held KDevelop optional
optional, not held Xcode optional
optional, not held consultation methods optional
optional, not held do cloud refactoring optional
optional, not held implement ICT security policies optional
optional, not held inter-organisational middleware system optional
optional, not held interfacing techniques optional
optional, not held manage cloud data and storage optional
optional, not held use an application-specific interface optional
optional, not held use automatic programming optional
optional, not held use concurrent programming optional
optional, not held use functional programming optional
optional, not held use logic programming optional
optional, not held use object-oriented programming optional
optional, not held apply statistical analysis techniques optional
optional, not held create solutions to problems optional
optional, not held legal requirements of ICT products optional
optional, not held statistics optional
optional, not held use back-up and recovery tools optional

29 held skills the ICT application configurator role does not ask for

Skill Type

not needed by the target role CoffeeScript knowledge
not needed by the target role Erlang knowledge
not needed by the target role ICT communications protocols knowledge
not needed by the target role ICT network simulation knowledge
not needed by the target role ICT security standards knowledge
not needed by the target role ICT system integration knowledge
not needed by the target role SPARK knowledge
not needed by the target role Smalltalk (computer programming) knowledge
not needed by the target role battery management systems knowledge
not needed by the target role create software design skill
not needed by the target role define technical requirements skill
not needed by the target role develop creative ideas skill
not needed by the target role embedded systems knowledge
not needed by the target role engineering control theory knowledge
not needed by the target role engineering processes knowledge
not needed by the target role field-programmable gate arrays knowledge
not needed by the target role hardware architectures knowledge
not needed by the target role hardware components knowledge
not needed by the target role interpret electronic design specifications skill
not needed by the target role network management system tools knowledge
not needed by the target role real-time computing knowledge
not needed by the target role signal processing knowledge
not needed by the target role software components libraries knowledge
not needed by the target role state estimation knowledge
not needed by the target role system design knowledge
not needed by the target role systems development life-cycle knowledge
not needed by the target role task algorithmisation knowledge
not needed by the target role tools for ICT test automation knowledge
not needed by the target role verify formal ICT specifications skill

10 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 acquire Tier

required, not held ICT debugging tools required
required, not held integrated development environment software required
optional, not held Eclipse (integrated development environment software) optional
optional, not held KDevelop optional
optional, not held Xcode optional
optional, not held consultation methods optional
optional, not held inter-organisational middleware system optional
optional, not held interfacing techniques optional
optional, not held legal requirements of ICT products optional
optional, not held statistics optional

Index

Other moves recorded from embedded system designer

Full index of moves from embedded system designer

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.