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

occupational analysttoemployment agent

A occupational analyst already meets 34% of what the employment agent role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.

From occupational analyst
34%
Overlap1
To employment agent
8 Skills carried over
10 Required, not held
64 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

34%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

64/ 100

1 Share of the employment agent role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the occupational analyst 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 employment agent role treats 7 of its required skills as things a occupational analyst already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • document interviews
  • employment law
  • hire human resources
  • interview people
  • job market offers
  • labour legislation

What stands in the way is 10 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 8 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A employment agent role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a occupational analyst background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held profile people management skills
  • already held job market offers business, administration and law
  • already held hire human resources management skills
  • already held human resource management business, administration and law
  • already held document interviews information skills
  • already held interview people communication, collaboration and creativity

All 8 carried skills, including the 7 the employment agent role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 23 missing skills fall into 5 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 communication, collaboration and creativity 4 required, 7 supplementary
  • required, not held apply knowledge of human behaviour required
  • required, not held communicate by telephone required
  • required, not held develop professional network required
  • required, not held listen actively required
  • optional, not held advise on career optional
  • optional, not held assist clients with personal development optional
  • optional, not held facilitate job market access optional
  • optional, not held prepare for job interview optional
  • optional, not held promote employment policy optional
  • optional, not held liaise with local authorities optional
  • optional, not held mentor individuals optional
02 assisting and caring 4 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held promote gender equality in business contexts required
  • required, not held ensure gender equality in the workplace required
  • required, not held maintain privacy of service users required
  • required, not held observe confidentiality required
  • optional, not held promote inclusion optional
  • optional, not held provide information on study programmes optional
03 management skills 2 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held recruit employees required
  • required, not held support employability of people with disabilities required
  • optional, not held assess character optional
  • optional, not held fix meetings optional
04 information skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held analyse unemployment rates optional
05 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held search databases optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a employment agent 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 8 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held document interviews skill
  • already held employment law knowledge
  • already held hire human resources skill
  • already held interview people skill
  • already held job market offers knowledge
  • already held labour legislation knowledge
  • already held profile people skill
  • already held human resource management knowledge
13 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held advise on career optional
  • optional, not held analyse unemployment rates optional
  • optional, not held assist clients with personal development optional
  • optional, not held facilitate job market access optional
  • optional, not held prepare for job interview optional
  • optional, not held promote employment policy optional
  • optional, not held assess character optional
  • optional, not held fix meetings optional
  • optional, not held liaise with local authorities optional
  • optional, not held mentor individuals optional
  • optional, not held promote inclusion optional
  • optional, not held provide information on study programmes optional
  • optional, not held search databases optional
28 held skills the employment agent role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role administer appointments skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on efficiency improvements skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on personnel management skill
  • not needed by the target role carry out job analysis skill
  • not needed by the target role company policies knowledge
  • not needed by the target role create training materials skill
  • not needed by the target role design job analysis tools skill
  • not needed by the target role develop occupational classification systems skill
  • not needed by the target role develop training programmes skill
  • not needed by the target role digital data processing skill
  • not needed by the target role gather feedback from employees skill
  • not needed by the target role human resources department processes knowledge
  • not needed by the target role identify necessary human resources skill
  • not needed by the target role liaise with government officials skill
  • not needed by the target role liaise with industry experts skill
  • not needed by the target role liaise with managers skill
  • not needed by the target role liaise with union officials skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain professional administration skill
  • not needed by the target role manage tests skill
  • not needed by the target role management consulting knowledge
  • not needed by the target role market analysis knowledge
  • not needed by the target role organisational structure knowledge
  • not needed by the target role present reports skill
  • not needed by the target role report analysis results skill
  • not needed by the target role support managers skill
  • not needed by the target role train employees skill
  • not needed by the target role write job descriptions skill
  • not needed by the target role write work-related reports skill
Index

Other moves recorded from occupational analyst

Full index of moves from occupational analyst

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.