Medium to fortune teller
A medium already meets 61% of what the fortune teller role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.
40.2/ 100
1 How much of what a fortune teller is expected to do is already part of a medium’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 fortune teller role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A fortune teller role treats 8 of its required skills as things a medium already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- develop professional network
- maintain customer service
- maintain privacy of service users
- manage personal professional development
- occultism
- prospect new customers
What stands in the way is 4 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 16 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A fortune teller role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a medium background worth leading with.
- already held occultism arts and humanities
- already held entertain people communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held perform improvisation communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held perform live communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held maintain privacy of service users assisting and caring
- already held rhetoric social sciences, journalism and information
All 16 carried skills, including the 8 the fortune teller role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 12 missing skills fall into 6 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 fortune-telling techniques required
- still to learn body language required
- optional, not held numerology optional
- still to learn give advice on personal matters required
- still to learn assess character required
- optional, not held interpret tarot cards optional
- optional, not held read palms optional
- optional, not held use internet chat optional
- optional, not held communicate by telephone optional
- optional, not held promote human rights optional
- optional, not held digital marketing techniques optional
- optional, not held astrology optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a fortune teller role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 fortune-telling techniques study this
- 02 give advice on personal matters practise this
- 03 assess character practise this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 16 skills that carry over
- already held develop professional network skill
- already held maintain customer service skill
- already held maintain privacy of service users skill
- already held manage personal professional development skill
- already held occultism knowledge
- already held prospect new customers skill
- already held rhetoric knowledge
- already held use consulting techniques skill
- already held administer appointments skill
- already held entertain people skill
- already held interview people skill
- already held keep personal administration skill
- already held manage a small-to-medium business skill
- already held perform improvisation skill
- already held perform live skill
- already held use different communication channels skill
8 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held interpret tarot cards optional
- optional, not held read palms optional
- optional, not held astrology optional
- optional, not held digital marketing techniques optional
- optional, not held numerology optional
- optional, not held use internet chat optional
- optional, not held communicate by telephone optional
- optional, not held promote human rights optional
9 held skills the fortune teller role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role apply crisis intervention skill
- not needed by the target role coach clients skill
- not needed by the target role counsel clients skill
- not needed by the target role listen actively skill
- not needed by the target role perform lectures skill
- not needed by the target role provide spiritual counselling skill
- not needed by the target role psychology knowledge
- not needed by the target role spiritualism knowledge
- not needed by the target role use séance tools skill
5 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- still to learn fortune-telling techniques required
- still to learn body language required
- optional, not held astrology optional
- optional, not held digital marketing techniques optional
- optional, not held numerology optional
Common questions about this move
Can a medium become a fortune teller?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. A medium already covers 61% of what a fortune teller is expected to do: 16 skills carry over, 8 of which the fortune teller role treats as required.
What skills does a medium need to become a fortune teller?
4 required skills are missing, plus 8 optional ones. They fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by arts and humanities. The single most important is fortune-telling techniques.
How hard is the move from medium to fortune teller?
Its learning distance is 40.2 out of 100, which is the moderate 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.