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

project support officertoproject manager

A project support officer already meets 46% of what the project manager role asks for. The move turns on 17 required skills not yet in the profile.

From project support officer
46%
Overlap1
To project manager
27 Skills carried over
17 Required, not held
64.7 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

46%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

64.7/ 100

1 Share of the project manager role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the project support officer 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 project manager role treats 19 of its required skills as things a project support officer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • customise project methodologies
  • draft project documentation
  • ensure compliance with legal requirements
  • ensure equipment availability
  • estimate duration of work
  • follow company standards

What stands in the way is 17 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 27 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A project manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a project support officer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held customise project methodologies management skills
  • already held perform PESTEL analysis information skills
  • already held Prince2 project management business, administration and law
  • already held project management methodology (PM²) business, administration and law
  • already held draft project documentation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held organise project meetings management skills

All 27 carried skills, including the 19 the project manager role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 41 missing skills fall into 7 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 management skills 7 required, 8 supplementary
  • required, not held create project specifications required
  • required, not held ensure equipment maintenance required
  • required, not held establish daily priorities required
  • required, not held manage logistics required
  • required, not held manage staff required
  • required, not held manage supplies required
  • required, not held supervise daily information operations required
  • optional, not held design wayside signalling interlockings optional
  • optional, not held develop business plans optional
  • optional, not held find a replacement for stage manager optional
  • optional, not held apply change management optional
  • optional, not held manage several projects optional
  • optional, not held plan schedule optional
  • optional, not held recruit employees optional
  • optional, not held strive for company growth optional
02 communication, collaboration and creativity 4 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held apply conflict management required
  • required, not held build business relationships required
  • required, not held negotiate with stakeholders required
  • required, not held write work-related reports required
  • optional, not held maintain relationship with suppliers optional
  • optional, not held use communication techniques optional
03 information skills 3 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held control of expenses required
  • required, not held identify legal requirements required
  • required, not held perform resource planning required
  • optional, not held analyse business plans optional
04 business, administration and law 2 required, 10 supplementary
  • required, not held internal risk management policy required
  • required, not held project management required
  • optional, not held program management optional
  • optional, not held corporate social responsibility optional
  • optional, not held crowdsourcing strategy optional
  • optional, not held insourcing strategy optional
  • optional, not held legal studies optional
  • optional, not held office administration optional
  • optional, not held outsourcing strategy optional
  • optional, not held total quality control optional
  • optional, not held business processes optional
  • optional, not held risk identification optional
05 generic programmes and qualifications 1 required
  • required, not held communication principles required
06 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held mathematics optional
  • optional, not held statistics optional

1 further area in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a project manager 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 27 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held customise project methodologies skill
  • already held draft project documentation skill
  • already held ensure compliance with legal requirements skill
  • already held ensure equipment availability skill
  • already held estimate duration of work skill
  • already held follow company standards skill
  • already held liaise with managers skill
  • already held manage budgets skill
  • already held manage project changes skill
  • already held manage project information skill
  • already held manage project metrics skill
  • already held organise project meetings skill
  • already held perform PESTEL analysis skill
  • already held perform project management skill
  • already held perform risk analysis skill
  • already held project management methodology (PM²) knowledge
  • already held project management principles knowledge
  • already held provide cost benefit analysis reports skill
  • already held train employees skill
  • already held Agile project management knowledge
  • already held Prince2 project management knowledge
  • already held create a financial report skill
  • already held lean project management knowledge
  • already held maintain a central project repository skill
  • already held manage standard enterprise resource planning system skill
  • already held project configuration management knowledge
  • already held quality assurance methodologies knowledge
The 1 learning area not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held quantity surveying optional
24 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held program management optional
  • optional, not held corporate social responsibility optional
  • optional, not held crowdsourcing strategy optional
  • optional, not held design wayside signalling interlockings optional
  • optional, not held develop business plans optional
  • optional, not held find a replacement for stage manager optional
  • optional, not held insourcing strategy optional
  • optional, not held legal studies optional
  • optional, not held maintain relationship with suppliers optional
  • optional, not held office administration optional
  • optional, not held outsourcing strategy optional
  • optional, not held quantity surveying optional
  • optional, not held total quality control optional
  • optional, not held analyse business plans optional
  • optional, not held apply change management optional
  • optional, not held business processes optional
  • optional, not held manage several projects optional
  • optional, not held mathematics optional
  • optional, not held plan schedule optional
  • optional, not held recruit employees optional
  • optional, not held risk identification optional
  • optional, not held statistics optional
  • optional, not held strive for company growth optional
  • optional, not held use communication techniques optional
13 held skills the project manager role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role carry out project activities skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct quality control analysis skill
  • not needed by the target role document project progress skill
  • not needed by the target role introduce new employees skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain financial records skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain internal communication systems skill
  • not needed by the target role manage administrative systems skill
  • not needed by the target role manage relationships with stakeholders skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor the conformance to the project methodology skill
  • not needed by the target role office software knowledge
  • not needed by the target role organise information on availability of the team skill
  • not needed by the target role quality standards knowledge
  • not needed by the target role use ICT ticketing system skill
16 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 internal risk management policy required
  • required, not held project management required
  • required, not held communication principles required
  • optional, not held program management optional
  • optional, not held corporate social responsibility optional
  • optional, not held crowdsourcing strategy optional
  • optional, not held insourcing strategy optional
  • optional, not held legal studies optional
  • optional, not held office administration optional
  • optional, not held outsourcing strategy optional
  • optional, not held quantity surveying optional
  • optional, not held total quality control optional
  • optional, not held business processes optional
  • optional, not held mathematics optional
  • optional, not held risk identification optional
  • optional, not held statistics optional
Index

Other moves recorded from project support officer

Full index of moves from project support officer

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.