Infantry soldier to artillery officer
An infantry soldier already meets 81% of what the artillery officer role asks for. The move turns on 2 required skills not yet in the profile.
19.4/ 100
1 How much of what an artillery officer is expected to do is already part of an infantry soldier’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 artillery officer role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
An artillery officer role treats 13 of its required skills as things an infantry soldier already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- camouflage
- ensure compliance with types of weapons
- ensure public safety and security
- handle surveillance equipment
- identify security threats
- military combat techniques
What stands in the way is 2 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 22 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. An artillery officer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of an infantry soldier background worth leading with.
- already held perform covert investigations information skills
- already held operate armoured fighting vehicles working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held camouflage engineering, manufacturing and construction
- already held military drill services
- already held perform military operations assisting and caring
- already held military combat techniques services
All 22 carried skills, including the 13 the artillery officer role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 7 missing skills fall into 4 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.
- still to learn devise military tactics required
- still to learn lead military troops required
- optional, not held coordinate rescue missions optional
- optional, not held give battle commands optional
- optional, not held train military troops optional
- optional, not held perform search and rescue missions optional
- optional, not held assess danger in risk areas optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 2 entries an artillery officer 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 · The rest of the record
All 22 skills that carry over
- already held camouflage knowledge
- already held ensure compliance with types of weapons skill
- already held ensure public safety and security skill
- already held handle surveillance equipment skill
- already held identify security threats skill
- already held military combat techniques knowledge
- already held military drill knowledge
- already held military weaponry knowledge
- already held operate armoured fighting vehicles skill
- already held operate radio equipment skill
- already held perform military operations skill
- already held surveillance methods knowledge
- already held use different communication channels skill
- already held execute working instructions skill
- already held legal use-of-force knowledge
- already held military code knowledge
- already held patrol areas skill
- already held perform covert investigations skill
- already held practice vigilance skill
- already held read maps skill
- already held undertake inspections skill
- already held use personal protection equipment skill
5 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held perform search and rescue missions optional
- optional, not held assess danger in risk areas optional
- optional, not held coordinate rescue missions optional
- optional, not held give battle commands optional
- optional, not held train military troops optional
10 held skills the artillery officer role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role assist in ship maintenance skill
- not needed by the target role control crowd skill
- not needed by the target role detain offenders skill
- not needed by the target role execute vehicle maintenance skill
- not needed by the target role first aid knowledge
- not needed by the target role law enforcement knowledge
- not needed by the target role provide first aid skill
- not needed by the target role provide humanitarian aid skill
- not needed by the target role respond to enquiries skill
- not needed by the target role restrain individuals skill
Common questions about this move
Can an infantry soldier become an artillery officer?
Yes, and it is an adjacent move. An infantry soldier already covers 81% of what an artillery officer is expected to do: 22 skills carry over, 13 of which the artillery officer role treats as required.
What skills does an infantry soldier need to become an artillery officer?
2 required skills are missing, plus 5 optional ones. They fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by management skills. The single most important is devise military tactics.
How hard is the move from infantry soldier to artillery officer?
Its learning distance is 19.4 out of 100, which is the adjacent band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
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.