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

industrial pharmacisttoanatomical pathology technician

A industrial pharmacist already meets 17% of what the anatomical pathology technician role asks for. The move turns on 26 required skills not yet in the profile.

From industrial pharmacist
17%
Overlap1
To anatomical pathology technician
7 Skills carried over
26 Required, not held
86.4 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

17%

Learning distance A rebuild

86.4/ 100

1 Share of the anatomical pathology technician role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the industrial pharmacist 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 anatomical pathology technician role treats 6 of its required skills as things a industrial pharmacist already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • accept own accountability
  • adhere to organisational guidelines
  • apply context specific clinical competences
  • comply with legislation related to health care
  • human anatomy
  • microbiology-bacteriology

What stands in the way is 26 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 7 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A anatomical pathology technician role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a industrial pharmacist background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held toxicology natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • already held microbiology-bacteriology natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • already held apply context specific clinical competences communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held human anatomy health and welfare
  • already held comply with legislation related to health care assisting and caring
  • already held accept own accountability communication, collaboration and creativity

All 7 carried skills, including the 6 the anatomical pathology technician role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 40 missing skills fall into 9 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 assisting and caring 10 required
  • required, not held assist with reconstructing the body after autopsy required
  • required, not held conduct visits to the postmortem room required
  • required, not held cope with unusual stimuli in the mortuary facility required
  • required, not held perform mortuary facility administration required
  • required, not held provide information on mortuary services required
  • required, not held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice required
  • required, not held follow clinical guidelines required
  • required, not held manage infection control in the facility required
  • required, not held observe confidentiality required
  • required, not held select hazard control required
02 health and welfare 6 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held pathological anatomy required
  • required, not held human physiology required
  • required, not held infection control required
  • required, not held medical informatics required
  • required, not held pathology required
  • required, not held sterilization techniques required
  • optional, not held forensic pathology optional
  • optional, not held first aid optional
  • optional, not held medical terminology optional
03 communication, collaboration and creativity 3 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held work with authorities related to mortuary services required
  • required, not held work in multidisciplinary health teams required
  • required, not held communicate in healthcare required
  • optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
  • optional, not held train employees optional
  • optional, not held use foreign languages for health-related research optional
  • optional, not held use foreign languages in patient care optional
  • optional, not held work in a multicultural environment in health care optional
04 information skills 2 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held carry out an autopsy required
  • required, not held perform pathology consultations required
  • optional, not held conduct routine blood testing optional
  • optional, not held perform virological test optional
  • optional, not held perform forensic examinations optional
05 handling and moving 2 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held take samples during autopsy required
  • required, not held follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health required
  • optional, not held dispose medical waste optional
06 arts and humanities 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held health care occupation-specific ethics required
  • optional, not held osteology optional

3 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a anatomical pathology technician 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 7 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held accept own accountability skill
  • already held adhere to organisational guidelines skill
  • already held apply context specific clinical competences skill
  • already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
  • already held human anatomy knowledge
  • already held microbiology-bacteriology knowledge
  • already held toxicology knowledge
The 3 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 business, administration and law 1 required
  • required, not held legal requirements related to mortuary services required
08 services 1 required
  • required, not held hygiene in a health care setting required
09 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held perform PCR covid test optional
14 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held forensic pathology optional
  • optional, not held perform PCR covid test optional
  • optional, not held conduct routine blood testing optional
  • optional, not held osteology optional
  • optional, not held perform virological test optional
  • optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
  • optional, not held dispose medical waste optional
  • optional, not held first aid optional
  • optional, not held medical terminology optional
  • optional, not held perform forensic examinations optional
  • optional, not held train employees optional
  • optional, not held use foreign languages for health-related research optional
  • optional, not held use foreign languages in patient care optional
  • optional, not held work in a multicultural environment in health care optional
39 held skills the anatomical pathology technician role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role analyse experimental laboratory data skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse medication's impact on brain skill
  • not needed by the target role apply safety procedures in laboratory skill
  • not needed by the target role assist in the production of laboratory documentation skill
  • not needed by the target role botany knowledge
  • not needed by the target role conduct health related research skill
  • not needed by the target role contribute to public health campaigns skill
  • not needed by the target role contribute to registration of pharmaceutical products skill
  • not needed by the target role develop pharmaceutical drugs skill
  • not needed by the target role ensure pharmacovigilance skill
  • not needed by the target role implement marketing strategies skill
  • not needed by the target role improve safety of medicines skill
  • not needed by the target role inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
  • not needed by the target role inorganic chemistry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role maintain medical devices skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain medical laboratory equipment skill
  • not needed by the target role manage adverse reactions to drugs skill
  • not needed by the target role manage medical supply chains skill
  • not needed by the target role manage medication safety issues skill
  • not needed by the target role manufacture medicines skill
  • not needed by the target role organic chemistry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role perform laboratory tests skill
  • not needed by the target role perform toxicological studies skill
  • not needed by the target role pharmaceutical chemistry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role pharmaceutical processes knowledge
  • not needed by the target role pharmaceutical technology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role pharmacognosy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role pharmacokinetics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role pharmacotherapy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role pharmacy law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role physics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role provide pharmaceutical advice skill
  • not needed by the target role quality assurance methodologies knowledge
  • not needed by the target role recommend product improvements skill
  • not needed by the target role report medication interaction to pharmacist skill
  • not needed by the target role safe management of medicines knowledge
  • not needed by the target role sales strategies knowledge
  • not needed by the target role test medicinal products skill
  • not needed by the target role wear appropriate protective gear skill
13 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 legal requirements related to mortuary services required
  • required, not held pathological anatomy required
  • required, not held health care occupation-specific ethics required
  • required, not held human physiology required
  • required, not held hygiene in a health care setting required
  • required, not held infection control required
  • required, not held medical informatics required
  • required, not held pathology required
  • required, not held sterilization techniques required
  • optional, not held forensic pathology optional
  • optional, not held osteology optional
  • optional, not held first aid optional
  • optional, not held medical terminology optional
Index

Other moves recorded from industrial pharmacist

Full index of moves from industrial pharmacist

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.