Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

executive assistanttomanagement assistant

A executive assistant already meets 60% of what the management assistant role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.

From executive assistant
60%
Overlap1
To management assistant
19 Skills carried over
4 Required, not held
42.7 Difficulty2
Career overlap Strong match

60%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

42.7/ 100

1 Share of the management assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the executive assistant 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 management assistant role treats 14 of its required skills as things a executive assistant already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • build business relationships
  • company policies
  • coordinate events
  • disseminate messages to people
  • draft corporate emails
  • fix meetings

What stands in the way is 4 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 19 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A management assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a executive assistant background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held maintain register of shareholders information skills
  • already held revise drafts made by managers information skills
  • already held manage personnel agenda management skills
  • already held draft corporate emails communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held disseminate messages to people management skills
  • already held perform business research information skills

All 19 carried skills, including the 14 the management assistant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 22 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 communication, collaboration and creativity 4 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held disseminate internal communications required
  • required, not held maintain internal communication systems required
  • required, not held support managers required
  • required, not held write work-related reports required
  • optional, not held draft press releases optional
  • optional, not held write meeting reports optional
02 business, administration and law 10 supplementary
  • optional, not held accounting department processes optional
  • optional, not held financial department processes optional
  • optional, not held legal department processes optional
  • optional, not held marketing department processes optional
  • optional, not held operations department processes optional
  • optional, not held human resources department processes optional
  • optional, not held management department processes optional
  • optional, not held personnel management optional
  • optional, not held public relations optional
  • optional, not held sales department processes optional
03 information skills 3 supplementary
  • optional, not held apply statistical analysis techniques optional
  • optional, not held maintain statutory books optional
  • optional, not held track key performance indicators optional
04 management skills 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held perform cost accounting activities optional
  • optional, not held use free typing techniques optional
05 assisting and caring 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held assist visitors optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a management assistant 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 19 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held build business relationships skill
  • already held company policies knowledge
  • already held coordinate events skill
  • already held disseminate messages to people skill
  • already held draft corporate emails skill
  • already held fix meetings skill
  • already held liaise with board members skill
  • already held liaise with managers skill
  • already held perform business research skill
  • already held perform clerical duties skill
  • already held process commissioned instructions skill
  • already held use different communication channels skill
  • already held use office systems skill
  • already held use spreadsheets software skill
  • already held maintain register of shareholders skill
  • already held manage personnel agenda skill
  • already held revise drafts made by managers skill
  • already held speak different languages skill
  • already held translate language concepts skill
18 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held accounting department processes optional
  • optional, not held financial department processes optional
  • optional, not held legal department processes optional
  • optional, not held marketing department processes optional
  • optional, not held operations department processes optional
  • optional, not held apply statistical analysis techniques optional
  • optional, not held assist visitors optional
  • optional, not held draft press releases optional
  • optional, not held human resources department processes optional
  • optional, not held maintain statutory books optional
  • optional, not held management department processes optional
  • optional, not held perform cost accounting activities optional
  • optional, not held personnel management optional
  • optional, not held public relations optional
  • optional, not held sales department processes optional
  • optional, not held track key performance indicators optional
  • optional, not held use free typing techniques optional
  • optional, not held write meeting reports optional
22 held skills the management assistant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role apply information security policies skill
  • not needed by the target role build international relations skill
  • not needed by the target role build trust skill
  • not needed by the target role business communication knowledge
  • not needed by the target role communicate schedules to the people concerned skill
  • not needed by the target role communicate with customers skill
  • not needed by the target role create import-export commercial documentation skill
  • not needed by the target role international import export regulations knowledge
  • not needed by the target role international tariffs knowledge
  • not needed by the target role manage office facility systems skill
  • not needed by the target role manage payroll reports skill
  • not needed by the target role observe confidentiality skill
  • not needed by the target role organise travel arrangements for staff skill
  • not needed by the target role plan schedule skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare financial statements skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare presentation material skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare tax returns forms skill
  • not needed by the target role show intercultural awareness skill
  • not needed by the target role support development of annual budget skill
  • not needed by the target role translate keywords into full texts skill
  • not needed by the target role use word processing software skill
  • not needed by the target role work in an international environment 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
  • optional, not held accounting department processes optional
  • optional, not held financial department processes optional
  • optional, not held legal department processes optional
  • optional, not held marketing department processes optional
  • optional, not held operations department processes optional
  • optional, not held human resources department processes optional
  • optional, not held management department processes optional
  • optional, not held personnel management optional
  • optional, not held public relations optional
  • optional, not held sales department processes optional
Index

Other moves recorded from executive assistant

Full index of moves from executive assistant

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.