Medium to psychic
A medium already meets 72% of what the psychic role asks for. The move turns on 2 required skills not yet in the profile.
28.2/ 100
1 How much of what a psychic 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 psychic role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A psychic 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 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 15 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A psychic 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 live communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held perform lectures communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held maintain privacy of service users assisting and caring
- already held rhetoric social sciences, journalism and information
All 15 carried skills, including the 8 the psychic role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 8 missing skills fall into 5 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 read people required
- optional, not held trace people optional
- still to learn give advice on personal matters required
- optional, not held use internet chat optional
- optional, not held assist police investigations optional
- optional, not held communicate by telephone optional
- optional, not held consultation optional
- optional, not held assess character optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 2 entries a psychic 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 15 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 keep personal administration skill
- already held manage a small-to-medium business skill
- already held perform lectures skill
- already held perform live skill
- already held use different communication channels skill
6 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held use internet chat optional
- optional, not held assess character optional
- optional, not held assist police investigations optional
- optional, not held communicate by telephone optional
- optional, not held consultation optional
- optional, not held trace people optional
10 held skills the psychic 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 interview people skill
- not needed by the target role listen actively skill
- not needed by the target role perform improvisation 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
1 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- optional, not held consultation optional
Common questions about this move
Can a medium become a psychic?
Yes, and it is an adjacent move. A medium already covers 72% of what a psychic is expected to do: 15 skills carry over, 8 of which the psychic role treats as required.
What skills does a medium need to become a psychic?
2 required skills are missing, plus 6 optional ones. They fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by information skills. The single most important is read people.
How hard is the move from medium to psychic?
Its learning distance is 28.2 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.