Career Overlap Transition record
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Import export specialist in pharmaceutical goods to import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft

An import export specialist in pharmaceutical goods already meets 79% of what the import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional
From import export specialist in pharmaceutical goods
79 % overlap
Very strong match
To import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft
22 You already bring
6 Still to learn
28 Skills in the target role2
Learning distance Short step

28.6/ 100

1 How much of what an import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft is expected to do is already part of an import export specialist in pharmaceutical goods’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 import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.

Why

Why this move works

An import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft role treats 22 of its required skills as things an import export specialist in pharmaceutical goods already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

  • administer multi-modal logistics
  • apply conflict management
  • apply export strategies
  • apply import strategies
  • build rapport with people from different cultural backgrounds
  • communicate with shipment forwarders

What stands in the way is 6 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 22 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. An import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of an import export specialist in pharmaceutical goods background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held import export regulations of dangerous chemicals business, administration and law
  • already held handle quotes from prospective shippers management skills
  • already held apply export strategies communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held apply import strategies communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held monitor merchandise delivery information skills
  • already held file claims with insurance companies information skills

All 22 carried skills, including the 22 the import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 6 missing skills fall into 2 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 engineering, manufacturing and construction 4 required
  • still to learn industrial tools required
  • still to learn machinery products required
  • still to learn types of aircraft required
  • still to learn types of maritime vessels required
02 business, administration and law 2 required
  • still to learn capital goods industry required
  • still to learn export regulations of dual-use goods required
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries an import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft 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 22 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held administer multi-modal logistics skill
  • already held apply conflict management skill
  • already held apply export strategies skill
  • already held apply import strategies skill
  • already held build rapport with people from different cultural backgrounds skill
  • already held communicate with shipment forwarders skill
  • already held create import-export commercial documentation skill
  • already held create solutions to problems skill
  • already held embargo regulations knowledge
  • already held ensure customs compliance skill
  • already held file claims with insurance companies skill
  • already held handle carriers skill
  • already held handle quotes from prospective shippers skill
  • already held have computer literacy skill
  • already held import export regulations of dangerous chemicals knowledge
  • already held international business knowledge
  • already held international commercial transactions rules knowledge
  • already held international import export regulations knowledge
  • already held meet deadlines skill
  • already held monitor merchandise delivery skill
  • already held plan transport operations skill
  • already held speak different languages skill
0 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to pick up Tier
3 held skills the import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role food hygiene rules knowledge
  • not needed by the target role pharmaceutical products knowledge
  • not needed by the target role regulations on substances knowledge
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 pick up Tier
  • still to learn capital goods industry required
  • still to learn export regulations of dual-use goods required
  • still to learn industrial tools required
  • still to learn machinery products required
  • still to learn types of aircraft required
  • still to learn types of maritime vessels required
Index
FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can an import export specialist in pharmaceutical goods become an import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft?

Yes, and it is an adjacent move. An import export specialist in pharmaceutical goods already covers 79% of what an import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft is expected to do: 22 skills carry over, 22 of which the import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft role treats as required.

What skills does an import export specialist in pharmaceutical goods need to become an import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft?

6 required skills are missing, plus 0 optional ones. They fall into 2 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by engineering, manufacturing and construction. The single most important is capital goods industry.

How hard is the move from import export specialist in pharmaceutical goods to import export specialist in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft?

Its learning distance is 28.6 out of 100, which is the adjacent 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.