Post office counter clerk to foreign exchange cashier
A post office counter clerk already meets 26% of what the foreign exchange cashier role asks for. The move turns on 8 required skills not yet in the profile.
65.6/ 100
1 How much of what a foreign exchange cashier is expected to do is already part of a post office counter clerk’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 foreign exchange cashier role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A foreign exchange cashier role treats 3 of its required skills as things a post office counter clerk already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- customer service
- handle financial transactions
- operate cash register
What stands in the way is 8 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 6 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A foreign exchange cashier role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a post office counter clerk background worth leading with.
- already held offer financial services communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held financial markets business, administration and law
- already held operate cash register management skills
- already held handle financial transactions management skills
- already held customer service business, administration and law
- already held communicate with customers communication, collaboration and creativity
All 6 carried skills, including the 3 the foreign exchange cashier role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 18 missing skills fall into 8 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 trade foreign currencies required
- still to learn provide financial product information required
- optional, not held provide customers with price information optional
- optional, not held apply technical communication skills optional
- optional, not held communicate with banking professionals optional
- still to learn foreign valuta required
- still to learn banking activities required
- optional, not held commercial law optional
- optional, not held financial jurisdiction optional
- still to learn maintain financial records required
- still to learn maintain records of financial transactions required
- optional, not held process order forms with customer's information optional
- optional, not held trace financial transactions optional
- still to learn electronic communication required
- still to learn perform clerical duties required
- optional, not held provide customers with order information optional
2 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a foreign exchange cashier role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 foreign valuta study this
- 02 trade foreign currencies practise this
- 03 banking activities study this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 6 skills that carry over
- already held customer service knowledge
- already held handle financial transactions skill
- already held operate cash register skill
- already held communicate with customers skill
- already held financial markets knowledge
- already held offer financial services skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
- optional, not held statistics optional
- optional, not held use IT tools optional
10 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held commercial law optional
- optional, not held process order forms with customer's information optional
- optional, not held provide customers with order information optional
- optional, not held provide customers with price information optional
- optional, not held apply technical communication skills optional
- optional, not held communicate with banking professionals optional
- optional, not held financial jurisdiction optional
- optional, not held statistics optional
- optional, not held trace financial transactions optional
- optional, not held use IT tools optional
19 held skills the foreign exchange cashier role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role advise on financial matters skill
- not needed by the target role assist customers skill
- not needed by the target role carry out active selling skill
- not needed by the target role characteristics of products knowledge
- not needed by the target role characteristics of services knowledge
- not needed by the target role convert currency skill
- not needed by the target role deliver correspondence skill
- not needed by the target role distribute pensions skill
- not needed by the target role financial products knowledge
- not needed by the target role handle registered mail skill
- not needed by the target role issue sales invoices skill
- not needed by the target role maintain store cleanliness skill
- not needed by the target role process payments skill
- not needed by the target role promote financial products skill
- not needed by the target role register mail skill
- not needed by the target role sales argumentation knowledge
- not needed by the target role satisfy customers skill
- not needed by the target role sell post office products skill
- not needed by the target role types of pensions knowledge
6 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 foreign valuta required
- still to learn banking activities required
- still to learn electronic communication required
- optional, not held commercial law optional
- optional, not held financial jurisdiction optional
- optional, not held statistics optional
Common questions about this move
Can a post office counter clerk become a foreign exchange cashier?
Yes, and it is a substantial move. A post office counter clerk already covers 26% of what a foreign exchange cashier is expected to do: 6 skills carry over, 3 of which the foreign exchange cashier role treats as required.
What skills does a post office counter clerk need to become a foreign exchange cashier?
8 required skills are missing, plus 10 optional ones. They fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by communication, collaboration and creativity. The single most important is foreign valuta.
How hard is the move from post office counter clerk to foreign exchange cashier?
Its learning distance is 65.6 out of 100, which is the substantial 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.