Career Overlap Transition record
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ICT project manager to ICT auditor manager

An ICT project manager already meets 29% of what the ICT auditor manager role asks for. The move turns on 13 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional
From ICT project manager
29 % overlap
Distant match
To ICT auditor manager
11 You already bring
13 Still to learn
42 Skills in the target role2
Learning distance Substantial retraining

73.8/ 100

1 How much of what an ICT auditor manager is expected to do is already part of an ICT project manager’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 ICT auditor manager role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.

Why

Why this move works

An ICT auditor manager role treats 6 of its required skills as things an ICT project manager already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

  • ICT project management
  • build business relationships
  • execute ICT audits
  • identify legal requirements
  • implement ICT risk management
  • quality standards

What stands in the way is 13 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 11 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. An ICT auditor manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of an ICT project manager background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held identify legal requirements information skills
  • already held implement ICT risk management information skills
  • already held ICT project management business, administration and law
  • already held ICT process quality models information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held execute ICT audits information skills
  • already held legal requirements of ICT products business, administration and law

All 11 carried skills, including the 6 the ICT auditor manager role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 31 missing skills fall into 9 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.

Skill to pick up Tier
01 information skills 3 required
  • still to learn monitor technology trends required
  • still to learn perform contract compliance audits required
  • still to learn prepare financial auditing reports required
02 working with computers 2 required, 3 supplementary
  • still to learn manage IT security compliances required
  • still to learn manage standard enterprise resource planning system required
  • optional, not held implement ICT security policies optional
  • optional, not held manage changes in ICT system optional
  • optional, not held use markup languages optional
03 assisting and caring 2 required, 2 supplementary
  • still to learn ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards required
  • still to learn ensure compliance with legal requirements required
  • optional, not held develop information security strategy optional
  • optional, not held ensure information privacy optional
04 management skills 2 required
  • still to learn develop ICT workflow required
  • still to learn develop audit plan required
05 information and communication technologies (icts) 1 required, 8 supplementary
  • still to learn attack vectors required
  • optional, not held AJAX optional
  • optional, not held ICT security standards optional
  • optional, not held JavaScript optional
  • optional, not held PHP optional
  • optional, not held cloud technologies optional
  • optional, not held information confidentiality optional
  • optional, not held information structure optional
  • optional, not held web programming optional
06 business, administration and law 1 required, 3 supplementary
  • still to learn audit techniques required
  • optional, not held ICT quality policy optional
  • optional, not held ICT security legislation optional
  • optional, not held organisational resilience optional

3 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries an ICT auditor manager 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 11 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held ICT project management knowledge
  • already held build business relationships skill
  • already held execute ICT audits skill
  • already held identify legal requirements skill
  • already held implement ICT risk management skill
  • already held quality standards knowledge
  • already held ICT process quality models knowledge
  • already held coach employees skill
  • already held legal requirements of ICT products knowledge
  • already held systems development life-cycle knowledge
  • already held train employees skill
The 3 learning areas not shown above
Skill to pick up Tier
07 services 1 required
  • still to learn cyber security required
08 social sciences, journalism and information 1 required
  • still to learn control objectives for information and related technology required
09 communication, collaboration and creativity 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held develop ICT test suite optional
  • optional, not held implement corporate governance optional
18 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to pick up Tier
  • optional, not held AJAX optional
  • optional, not held ICT quality policy optional
  • optional, not held ICT security legislation optional
  • optional, not held ICT security standards optional
  • optional, not held JavaScript optional
  • optional, not held PHP optional
  • optional, not held cloud technologies optional
  • optional, not held develop ICT test suite optional
  • optional, not held develop information security strategy optional
  • optional, not held ensure information privacy optional
  • optional, not held implement ICT security policies optional
  • optional, not held implement corporate governance optional
  • optional, not held information confidentiality optional
  • optional, not held information structure optional
  • optional, not held manage changes in ICT system optional
  • optional, not held organisational resilience optional
  • optional, not held use markup languages optional
  • optional, not held web programming optional
60 held skills the ICT auditor manager role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role Agile development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Agile project management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role DevOps knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT project management methodologies knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT system user requirements knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Open source model knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Outsourcing model knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Process-based management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Prototyping development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Rapid application development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Spiral development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Waterfall development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role analyse business plans skill
  • not needed by the target role apply change management skill
  • not needed by the target role apply conflict management skill
  • not needed by the target role apply organisational techniques skill
  • not needed by the target role blockchain mining principles knowledge
  • not needed by the target role carry out project activities skill
  • not needed by the target role create project specifications skill
  • not needed by the target role create solutions to problems skill
  • not needed by the target role crowdsourcing strategy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role define roadmap for blockchain in applications skill
  • not needed by the target role define technical requirements skill
  • not needed by the target role define technology strategy skill
  • not needed by the target role develop blockchain technology skill
  • not needed by the target role develop information standards skill
  • not needed by the target role digital systems knowledge
  • not needed by the target role document management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role draft project documentation skill
  • not needed by the target role estimate duration of work skill
  • not needed by the target role hybrid model knowledge
  • not needed by the target role incremental development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role insourcing strategy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role internal risk management policy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role iterative development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role lean project management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role maintain a central project repository skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain relationship with suppliers skill
  • not needed by the target role manage ICT project skill
  • not needed by the target role manage budgets skill

20 further entries not listed here

15 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 pick up Tier
  • still to learn control objectives for information and related technology required
  • still to learn attack vectors required
  • still to learn cyber security required
  • still to learn audit techniques required
  • optional, not held AJAX optional
  • optional, not held ICT quality policy optional
  • optional, not held ICT security legislation optional
  • optional, not held ICT security standards optional
  • optional, not held JavaScript optional
  • optional, not held PHP optional
  • optional, not held cloud technologies optional
  • optional, not held information confidentiality optional
  • optional, not held information structure optional
  • optional, not held organisational resilience optional
  • optional, not held web programming optional
Index

Other moves recorded from ICT project manager

Full index of moves from ICT project manager

FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can an ICT project manager become an ICT auditor manager?

Yes, and it is a substantial move. An ICT project manager already covers 29% of what an ICT auditor manager is expected to do: 11 skills carry over, 6 of which the ICT auditor manager role treats as required.

What skills does an ICT project manager need to become an ICT auditor manager?

13 required skills are missing, plus 18 optional ones. They fall into 9 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by information skills. The single most important is control objectives for information and related technology.

How hard is the move from ICT project manager to ICT auditor manager?

Its learning distance is 73.8 out of 100, which is the substantial band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.

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.