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

medical laboratory assistanttobiochemistry technician

A medical laboratory assistant already meets 37% of what the biochemistry technician role asks for. The move turns on 14 required skills not yet in the profile.

From medical laboratory assistant
37%
Overlap1
To biochemistry technician
15 Skills carried over
14 Required, not held
67.2 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

37%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

67.2/ 100

1 Share of the biochemistry technician role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the medical laboratory assistant 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 biochemistry technician role treats 9 of its required skills as things a medical laboratory assistant already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • apply safety procedures in laboratory
  • assist in the production of laboratory documentation
  • biological chemistry
  • calibrate laboratory equipment
  • conduct routine blood testing
  • laboratory techniques

What stands in the way is 14 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 15 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A biochemistry technician role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a medical laboratory assistant background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held conduct routine blood testing information skills
  • already held examine samples in dermatology information skills
  • already held assist in the production of laboratory documentation information skills
  • already held analyse blood samples information skills
  • already held clinical cytology natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • already held stem cells natural sciences, mathematics and statistics

All 15 carried skills, including the 9 the biochemistry technician role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 29 missing skills fall into 11 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 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 4 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held genetics required
  • required, not held laboratory equipment required
  • required, not held biology required
  • required, not held life sciences required
  • optional, not held computational chemistry optional
  • optional, not held evolutionary biology optional
  • optional, not held analytical chemistry optional
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
  • optional, not held toxicology optional
02 information skills 3 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held analyse experimental laboratory data required
  • required, not held apply scientific methods required
  • required, not held perform scientific research required
  • optional, not held keep task records optional
03 handling and moving 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held collect samples for analysis required
  • optional, not held label samples optional
  • optional, not held preserve samples optional
04 health and welfare 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held biotechnology required
  • optional, not held endocrinology optional
  • optional, not held communicable diseases optional
05 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held write technical reports required
  • optional, not held write research proposals optional
06 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held use laboratory equipment required
  • optional, not held perform chemical experiments optional

5 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a biochemistry 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 15 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held apply safety procedures in laboratory skill
  • already held assist in the production of laboratory documentation skill
  • already held biological chemistry knowledge
  • already held calibrate laboratory equipment skill
  • already held conduct routine blood testing skill
  • already held laboratory techniques knowledge
  • already held maintain laboratory equipment skill
  • already held perform laboratory tests skill
  • already held stem cells knowledge
  • already held analyse blood samples skill
  • already held analyse cell cultures skill
  • already held clinical cytology knowledge
  • already held examine samples in dermatology skill
  • already held microbiology-bacteriology knowledge
  • already held virology knowledge
The 5 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 education 1 required
  • required, not held scientific research methodology required
08 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 required
  • required, not held solid phase microextraction required
09 management skills 1 required
  • required, not held manage inventory required
10 working with computers 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held maintain freelance database optional
  • optional, not held prepare visual data optional
11 services 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held hazardous waste storage optional
15 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held computational chemistry optional
  • optional, not held endocrinology optional
  • optional, not held evolutionary biology optional
  • optional, not held label samples optional
  • optional, not held analytical chemistry optional
  • optional, not held communicable diseases optional
  • optional, not held hazardous waste storage optional
  • optional, not held keep task records optional
  • optional, not held maintain freelance database optional
  • optional, not held perform chemical experiments optional
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
  • optional, not held prepare visual data optional
  • optional, not held preserve samples optional
  • optional, not held toxicology optional
  • optional, not held write research proposals optional
57 held skills the biochemistry technician role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role archive healthcare users' records skill
  • not needed by the target role automated analysers in the medical laboratory knowledge
  • not needed by the target role blood collection on babies knowledge
  • not needed by the target role blood donation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role blood transfusion knowledge
  • not needed by the target role blood type classification knowledge
  • not needed by the target role carry out flow cytometry skill
  • not needed by the target role carry out quality control in microbiology laboratories skill
  • not needed by the target role check the received biological samples skill
  • not needed by the target role clinical biochemistry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role collect biological samples from patients skill
  • not needed by the target role communicate in healthcare skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct cancer screening tests skill
  • not needed by the target role cryopreservation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role data protection knowledge
  • not needed by the target role densiometry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role dermapathology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role dispose medical waste skill
  • not needed by the target role electroencephalography knowledge
  • not needed by the target role examine cell specimens microscopically skill
  • not needed by the target role explain the molecular basis of a disease to patients skill
  • not needed by the target role fine-needle aspiration knowledge
  • not needed by the target role histopathology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role identify patients' medical records skill
  • not needed by the target role immunology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role interpret hematological test results skill
  • not needed by the target role interpret medical results skill
  • not needed by the target role interpret urology diagnostic tests skill
  • not needed by the target role label blood samples skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain healthcare user data confidentiality skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain medical laboratory equipment skill
  • not needed by the target role microscopic techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role mix chemicals skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor stock level skill
  • not needed by the target role operate scientific measuring equipment skill
  • not needed by the target role order supplies skill
  • not needed by the target role paediatric phlebotomy procedures knowledge
  • not needed by the target role perform PCR covid test skill
  • not needed by the target role perform bone marrow transplant skill
  • not needed by the target role perform cerebrospinal fluid analysis skill

17 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 acquire Tier
  • required, not held genetics required
  • required, not held laboratory equipment required
  • required, not held solid phase microextraction required
  • required, not held biology required
  • required, not held biotechnology required
  • required, not held life sciences required
  • required, not held scientific research methodology required
  • optional, not held computational chemistry optional
  • optional, not held endocrinology optional
  • optional, not held evolutionary biology optional
  • optional, not held analytical chemistry optional
  • optional, not held communicable diseases optional
  • optional, not held hazardous waste storage optional
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
  • optional, not held toxicology optional
Index

Other moves recorded from medical laboratory assistant

Full index of moves from medical laboratory assistant

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.