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

sport therapisttoleisure attendant

A sport therapist already meets 37% of what the leisure attendant role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.

From sport therapist
37%
Overlap1
To leisure attendant
4 Skills carried over
6 Required, not held
55.2 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

37%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

55.2/ 100

1 Share of the leisure attendant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the sport therapist 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 leisure attendant role treats 4 of its required skills as things a sport therapist already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • analyse personal fitness information
  • motivate fitness clients
  • promote healthy fitness environment
  • provide fitness information

What stands in the way is 6 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 4 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A leisure attendant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a sport therapist background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held motivate fitness clients management skills
  • already held provide fitness information communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held analyse personal fitness information management skills
  • already held promote healthy fitness environment communication, collaboration and creativity

All 4 carried skills, including the 4 the leisure attendant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 8 missing skills fall into 3 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 5 required
  • required, not held work in fitness teams required
  • required, not held promote fitness customer referral required
  • required, not held promote healthy lifestyle required
  • required, not held provide fitness customer care required
  • required, not held provide fitness customer service required
02 management skills 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held maintain the exercise environment required
  • optional, not held process payments optional
03 services 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held skateboard optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a leisure attendant 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 4 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held analyse personal fitness information skill
  • already held motivate fitness clients skill
  • already held promote healthy fitness environment skill
  • already held provide fitness information skill
2 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held skateboard optional
  • optional, not held process payments optional
17 held skills the leisure attendant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role adapt fitness exercises skill
  • not needed by the target role assess physical conditions of clients skill
  • not needed by the target role attend to fitness clients under controlled health conditions skill
  • not needed by the target role collect client fitness information skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct fitness risk assessment skill
  • not needed by the target role correct potentially harmful movements skill
  • not needed by the target role demonstrate professional attitude to clients skill
  • not needed by the target role ensure safety of exercise environment skill
  • not needed by the target role identify health objectives skill
  • not needed by the target role inform clients of healthy lifestyle benefits skill
  • not needed by the target role integrate exercise science to the design of the programme skill
  • not needed by the target role integrate principles of training skill
  • not needed by the target role manage fitness communication skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare exercise session skill
  • not needed by the target role prescribe exercises skill
  • not needed by the target role prescribe exercises for controlled health conditions skill
  • not needed by the target role show professional responsibility skill
1 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
  • optional, not held skateboard optional
Index
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.