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

trade development officertoeconomic development coordinator

A trade development officer already meets 51% of what the economic development coordinator role asks for. The move turns on 5 required skills not yet in the profile.

From trade development officer
51%
Overlap1
To economic development coordinator
13 Skills carried over
5 Required, not held
45.7 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

51%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

45.7/ 100

1 Share of the economic development coordinator role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the trade development 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 economic development coordinator role treats 7 of its required skills as things a trade development officer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • advise on legislative acts
  • assess risk factors
  • economics
  • government policy implementation
  • liaise with local authorities
  • maintain relations with local representatives

What stands in the way is 5 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 13 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A economic development coordinator role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a trade development officer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held advise on government policy compliance communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held carry out strategic research information skills
  • already held assess risk factors information skills
  • already held market analysis business, administration and law
  • already held maintain relations with local representatives communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held financial forecasting business, administration and law

All 13 carried skills, including the 7 the economic development coordinator role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 16 missing skills fall into 5 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 2 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held consider economic criteria in decision making required
  • required, not held develop economic policies required
  • optional, not held manage government-funded programmes optional
02 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held advise on economic development required
  • optional, not held advise on public finance optional
  • optional, not held apply systemic design thinking optional
  • optional, not held create solutions to problems optional
  • optional, not held ensure cross-department cooperation optional
  • optional, not held present reports optional
03 information skills 1 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held analyse economic trends required
  • optional, not held analyse market financial trends optional
  • optional, not held apply statistical analysis techniques optional
  • optional, not held carry out statistical forecasts optional
  • optional, not held ensure information transparency optional
04 business, administration and law 1 required
  • required, not held public finance required
05 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held statistics optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a economic development coordinator 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 13 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held advise on legislative acts skill
  • already held assess risk factors skill
  • already held economics knowledge
  • already held government policy implementation knowledge
  • already held liaise with local authorities skill
  • already held maintain relations with local representatives skill
  • already held maintain relationships with government agencies skill
  • already held advise on government policy compliance skill
  • already held carry out strategic research skill
  • already held develop professional network skill
  • already held financial forecasting knowledge
  • already held manage government policy implementation skill
  • already held market analysis knowledge
11 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held advise on public finance optional
  • optional, not held analyse market financial trends optional
  • optional, not held apply statistical analysis techniques optional
  • optional, not held apply systemic design thinking optional
  • optional, not held carry out statistical forecasts optional
  • optional, not held create solutions to problems optional
  • optional, not held ensure cross-department cooperation optional
  • optional, not held ensure information transparency optional
  • optional, not held manage government-funded programmes optional
  • optional, not held present reports optional
  • optional, not held statistics optional
18 held skills the economic development coordinator role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role build business relationships skill
  • not needed by the target role build international relations skill
  • not needed by the target role business strategy concepts knowledge
  • not needed by the target role competition law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role corporate law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role develop international cooperation strategies skill
  • not needed by the target role develop trade policies skill
  • not needed by the target role establish collaborative relations skill
  • not needed by the target role host trade delegations skill
  • not needed by the target role inspect government policy compliance skill
  • not needed by the target role international business knowledge
  • not needed by the target role international commercial transactions rules knowledge
  • not needed by the target role international import export regulations knowledge
  • not needed by the target role investigate competition restrictions skill
  • not needed by the target role perform market research skill
  • not needed by the target role perform project management skill
  • not needed by the target role project management principles knowledge
  • not needed by the target role promote free trade skill
2 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 public finance required
  • optional, not held statistics optional
Index

Other moves recorded from trade development officer

Full index of moves from trade development 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.