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

ICT project managertoICT documentation manager

A ICT project manager already meets 45% of what the ICT documentation manager role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.

From ICT project manager
45%
Overlap1
To ICT documentation manager
17 Skills carried over
10 Required, not held
56.5 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

45%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

56.5/ 100

1 Share of the ICT documentation manager role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the ICT project manager 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 documentation manager role treats 8 of its required skills as things a ICT project manager already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • ICT project management
  • apply organisational techniques
  • define technology strategy
  • develop information standards
  • identify legal requirements
  • legal requirements of ICT products

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 17 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A ICT documentation manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a ICT project manager background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held develop information standards management skills
  • already held crowdsourcing strategy business, administration and law
  • already held document management social sciences, journalism and information
  • already held insourcing strategy business, administration and law
  • already held manage localisation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held outsourcing strategy business, administration and law

All 17 carried skills, including the 8 the ICT documentation manager role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 20 missing skills fall into 7 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 management skills 3 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held manage content development projects required
  • required, not held provide guidelines for content development required
  • required, not held manage human resources required
  • optional, not held develop media strategy optional
  • optional, not held plan digital marketing optional
  • optional, not held set quality assurance objectives optional
02 information skills 2 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held manage content metadata required
  • required, not held manage information sources required
  • optional, not held identify market requirements for ICT documentation optional
  • optional, not held identify ICT user needs optional
  • optional, not held monitor technology trends optional
  • optional, not held track key performance indicators optional
03 information and communication technologies (icts) 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held industrial software required
  • optional, not held ICT help platforms optional
  • optional, not held usability engineering optional
04 business, administration and law 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held business processes required
  • optional, not held supplier management optional
05 arts and humanities 1 required
  • required, not held content development processes required
06 assisting and caring 1 required
  • required, not held ensure compliance with legal requirements required

1 further area in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a ICT documentation 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 17 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held ICT project management knowledge
  • already held apply organisational techniques skill
  • already held define technology strategy skill
  • already held develop information standards skill
  • already held identify legal requirements skill
  • already held legal requirements of ICT products knowledge
  • already held manage budgets skill
  • already held perform resource planning skill
  • already held apply change management skill
  • already held crowdsourcing strategy knowledge
  • already held document management knowledge
  • already held insourcing strategy knowledge
  • already held maintain relationship with suppliers skill
  • already held manage localisation skill
  • already held outsourcing strategy knowledge
  • already held quality assurance methodologies knowledge
  • already held systems development life-cycle knowledge
The 1 learning area not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required
  • required, not held disseminate internal communications required
10 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held identify market requirements for ICT documentation optional
  • optional, not held ICT help platforms optional
  • optional, not held identify ICT user needs optional
  • optional, not held supplier management optional
  • optional, not held usability engineering optional
  • optional, not held develop media strategy optional
  • optional, not held monitor technology trends optional
  • optional, not held plan digital marketing optional
  • optional, not held set quality assurance objectives optional
  • optional, not held track key performance indicators optional
54 held skills the ICT documentation 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 process quality models 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 conflict management skill
  • not needed by the target role blockchain mining principles knowledge
  • not needed by the target role build business relationships skill
  • not needed by the target role carry out project activities skill
  • not needed by the target role coach employees 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 define roadmap for blockchain in applications skill
  • not needed by the target role define technical requirements skill
  • not needed by the target role develop blockchain technology skill
  • not needed by the target role digital systems 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 execute ICT audits skill
  • not needed by the target role hybrid model knowledge
  • not needed by the target role implement ICT risk management skill
  • not needed by the target role incremental development 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 manage ICT project skill
  • not needed by the target role manage project changes skill
  • not needed by the target role manage project information skill
  • not needed by the target role manage staff skill
  • not needed by the target role object-oriented modelling knowledge

14 further entries not listed here

6 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 business processes required
  • required, not held content development processes required
  • required, not held industrial software required
  • optional, not held ICT help platforms optional
  • optional, not held supplier management optional
  • optional, not held usability engineering optional
Index

Other moves recorded from ICT project manager

Full index of moves from ICT project manager

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.