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

post office counter clerktoforeign 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.

From post office counter clerk
26%
Overlap1
To foreign exchange cashier
6 Skills carried over
8 Required, not held
65.6 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

26%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

65.6/ 100

1 Share of the foreign exchange cashier role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the post office counter clerk 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 foreign exchange cashier role treats 3 of its required skills as things a post office counter clerk already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • 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

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.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • 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

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 18 missing skills fall into 8 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 2 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held trade foreign currencies required
  • required, not held 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
02 business, administration and law 2 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held foreign valuta required
  • required, not held banking activities required
  • optional, not held commercial law optional
  • optional, not held financial jurisdiction optional
03 information skills 2 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held maintain financial records required
  • required, not held maintain records of financial transactions required
  • optional, not held process order forms with customer's information optional
  • optional, not held trace financial transactions optional
04 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 required
  • required, not held electronic communication required
05 management skills 1 required
  • required, not held perform clerical duties required
06 assisting and caring 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held provide customers with order information optional

2 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

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.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 6 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • 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
Skill to acquire Tier
07 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held statistics optional
08 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held use IT tools optional
10 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • 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
Skill Type
  • 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held foreign valuta required
  • required, not held banking activities required
  • required, not held electronic communication required
  • optional, not held commercial law optional
  • optional, not held financial jurisdiction optional
  • optional, not held statistics optional
Index

Other moves recorded from post office counter clerk

Full index of moves from post office counter clerk

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.