health and safety inspectortolabour relations officer
A health and safety inspector already meets 54% of what the labour relations officer role asks for. The move turns on 8 required skills not yet in the profile.
54%
45.5/ 100
1 Share of the labour relations officer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the health and safety inspector 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 labour relations officer role treats 8 of its required skills as things a health and safety inspector already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- advise on conflict management
- advise on organisational culture
- apply conflict management
- employment law
- gather feedback from employees
- government policy implementation
What stands in the way is 8 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 17 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A labour relations officer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a health and safety inspector background worth leading with.
- already held monitor organisation climate information skills
- already held advise on organisational culture communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held protect employee rights communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held personnel management business, administration and law
- already held inspect government policy compliance information skills
- already held gather feedback from employees information skills
All 17 carried skills, including the 8 the labour relations officer role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 12 missing skills fall into 4 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 maintain relations with local representatives required
- required, not held represent union members required
- required, not held advise on personnel management required
- required, not held build trust required
- required, not held establish collaborative relations required
- required, not held represent the organisation required
- optional, not held ensure cross-department cooperation optional
- optional, not held facilitate official agreement optional
- optional, not held moderate in negotiations optional
- required, not held ensure gender equality in the workplace required
- required, not held support employability of people with disabilities required
- optional, not held business communication optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a labour relations officer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 maintain relations with local representatives skill · sector specific
- 02 represent union members skill · sector specific
- 03 advise on personnel management 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 17 skills that carry over
- already held advise on conflict management skill
- already held advise on organisational culture skill
- already held apply conflict management skill
- already held employment law knowledge
- already held gather feedback from employees skill
- already held government policy implementation knowledge
- already held personnel management knowledge
- already held protect employee rights skill
- already held advise on government policy compliance skill
- already held create solutions to problems skill
- already held inspect government policy compliance skill
- already held maintain relationships with government agencies skill
- already held manage government policy implementation skill
- already held monitor company policy skill
- already held monitor organisation climate skill
- already held promote inclusion skill
- already held respond to enquiries skill
4 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held business communication optional
- optional, not held ensure cross-department cooperation optional
- optional, not held facilitate official agreement optional
- optional, not held moderate in negotiations optional
12 held skills the labour relations officer role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role audit techniques knowledge
- not needed by the target role conduct workplace audits skill
- not needed by the target role corporate law knowledge
- not needed by the target role health and safety in the workplace knowledge
- not needed by the target role identify policy breach skill
- not needed by the target role implement strategic planning skill
- not needed by the target role liaise with local authorities skill
- not needed by the target role monitor employee's health skill
- not needed by the target role occupational health knowledge
- not needed by the target role present reports skill
- not needed by the target role set inclusion policies skill
- not needed by the target role write inspection reports skill
1 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- optional, not held business communication optional
Other moves recorded from health and safety inspector
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.