Sales support assistant to legal administrative assistant
A sales support assistant already meets 16% of what the legal administrative assistant role asks for. The move turns on 9 required skills not yet in the profile.
75.3/ 100
1 How much of what a legal administrative assistant is expected to do is already part of a sales support assistant’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 legal administrative assistant role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A legal administrative assistant role treats 2 of its required skills as things a sales support assistant already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- perform clerical duties
- perform office routine activities
What stands in the way is 9 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 4 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A legal administrative assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a sales support assistant background worth leading with.
- already held perform office routine activities management skills
- already held perform clerical duties management skills
- already held manage accounts management skills
- already held issue sales invoices management skills
All 4 carried skills, including the 2 the legal administrative assistant role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 25 missing skills fall into 6 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 procedural law required
- still to learn legal department processes required
- still to learn private law required
- still to learn legal terminology required
- optional, not held civil law optional
- optional, not held civil process order optional
- optional, not held court procedures optional
- optional, not held legal case management optional
- optional, not held legal research optional
- still to learn manage personnel agenda required
- still to learn meet deadlines for preparing legal cases required
- optional, not held brief court officials optional
- optional, not held fix meetings optional
- still to learn communicate by telephone required
- optional, not held apply technical communication skills optional
- optional, not held handle case evidence optional
- optional, not held liaise with typists optional
- optional, not held revise legal documents optional
- still to learn compile legal documents required
- optional, not held decode handwritten texts optional
- optional, not held study court hearings optional
- optional, not held translate keywords into full texts optional
- still to learn observe confidentiality required
- optional, not held manage digital documents optional
- optional, not held use word processing software optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a legal administrative assistant 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 4 skills that carry over
- already held perform clerical duties skill
- already held perform office routine activities skill
- already held issue sales invoices skill
- already held manage accounts skill
16 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held apply technical communication skills optional
- optional, not held brief court officials optional
- optional, not held civil law optional
- optional, not held civil process order optional
- optional, not held court procedures optional
- optional, not held decode handwritten texts optional
- optional, not held fix meetings optional
- optional, not held handle case evidence optional
- optional, not held legal case management optional
- optional, not held legal research optional
- optional, not held liaise with typists optional
- optional, not held manage digital documents optional
- optional, not held revise legal documents optional
- optional, not held study court hearings optional
- optional, not held translate keywords into full texts optional
- optional, not held use word processing software optional
19 held skills the legal administrative assistant role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role analyse customer service surveys skill
- not needed by the target role bookkeeping regulations knowledge
- not needed by the target role carry out sales analysis skill
- not needed by the target role check accounting records skill
- not needed by the target role customer service knowledge
- not needed by the target role draw up marketing and sales plan skill
- not needed by the target role electronic business knowledge
- not needed by the target role forecast sales over periods of time skill
- not needed by the target role handle mail skill
- not needed by the target role implement sales strategies skill
- not needed by the target role keep records on sales skill
- not needed by the target role order supplies skill
- not needed by the target role perform business research skill
- not needed by the target role prepare sales checks skill
- not needed by the target role process refunds skill
- not needed by the target role produce sales reports skill
- not needed by the target role sales activities knowledge
- not needed by the target role supervise sales activities skill
- not needed by the target role use sales forecasting softwares skill
9 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 procedural law required
- still to learn legal department processes required
- still to learn private law required
- still to learn legal terminology required
- optional, not held civil law optional
- optional, not held civil process order optional
- optional, not held court procedures optional
- optional, not held legal case management optional
- optional, not held legal research optional
Other moves recorded from sales support assistant
Common questions about this move
Can a sales support assistant become a legal administrative assistant?
Yes, and it is a career change move. A sales support assistant already covers 16% of what a legal administrative assistant is expected to do: 4 skills carry over, 2 of which the legal administrative assistant role treats as required.
What skills does a sales support assistant need to become a legal administrative assistant?
9 required skills are missing, plus 16 optional ones. They fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by business, administration and law. The single most important is procedural law.
How hard is the move from sales support assistant to legal administrative assistant?
Its learning distance is 75.3 out of 100, which is the career change 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.