bacteriology techniciantobiology technician
A bacteriology technician already meets 73% of what the biology technician role asks for. The move turns on 3 required skills not yet in the profile.
73%
34.7/ 100
1 Share of the biology technician role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the bacteriology technician 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 this move works
A biology technician role treats 19 of its required skills as things a bacteriology technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- analyse experimental laboratory data
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- apply scientific methods
- assist in the production of laboratory documentation
- biology
- calibrate laboratory equipment
What stands in the way is 3 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 32 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A biology technician role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a bacteriology technician background worth leading with.
- already held perform fertility laboratory procedures working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held use laboratory equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held laboratory equipment natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- already held maintain freelance database working with computers
- already held preserve samples handling and moving
- already held assist in the production of laboratory documentation information skills
All 32 carried skills, including the 19 the biology technician role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 19 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.
- required, not held computational biology required
- required, not held cryopreservation required
- optional, not held applied zoology optional
- optional, not held evolutionary biology optional
- optional, not held genomics optional
- optional, not held chemistry optional
- optional, not held ecology optional
- optional, not held oceanography optional
- optional, not held pharmacology optional
- required, not held perform stem cell transplantation required
- optional, not held analyse blood samples optional
- optional, not held perform field research optional
- optional, not held monitor the welfare of animals optional
- optional, not held animal welfare legislation optional
- optional, not held environmental legislation optional
- optional, not held biosecurity optional
- optional, not held pathology optional
- optional, not held pollution prevention optional
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a biology technician role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 computational biology knowledge · sector specific
- 02 cryopreservation knowledge · sector specific
- 03 perform stem cell transplantation skill · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 32 skills that carry over
- already held analyse experimental laboratory data skill
- already held apply safety procedures in laboratory skill
- already held apply scientific methods skill
- already held assist in the production of laboratory documentation skill
- already held biology knowledge
- already held calibrate laboratory equipment skill
- already held collect biological data skill
- already held collect samples for analysis skill
- already held laboratory equipment knowledge
- already held laboratory techniques knowledge
- already held life sciences knowledge
- already held maintain laboratory equipment skill
- already held manage inventory skill
- already held perform laboratory tests skill
- already held perform scientific research skill
- already held scientific research methodology knowledge
- already held stem cells knowledge
- already held use laboratory equipment skill
- already held write technical reports skill
- already held analyse cell cultures skill
- already held botany knowledge
- already held hazardous waste storage knowledge
- already held keep task records skill
- already held label samples skill
- already held maintain freelance database skill
- already held microbiology-bacteriology knowledge
- already held molecular biology knowledge
- already held perform fertility laboratory procedures skill
- already held prepare visual data skill
- already held preserve samples skill
- already held virology knowledge
- already held write research proposals skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
- optional, not held collect reproductive cells optional
16 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held analyse blood samples optional
- optional, not held applied zoology optional
- optional, not held collect reproductive cells optional
- optional, not held evolutionary biology optional
- optional, not held genomics optional
- optional, not held perform field research optional
- optional, not held animal welfare legislation optional
- optional, not held biosecurity optional
- optional, not held chemistry optional
- optional, not held ecology optional
- optional, not held environmental legislation optional
- optional, not held monitor the welfare of animals optional
- optional, not held oceanography optional
- optional, not held pathology optional
- optional, not held pharmacology optional
- optional, not held pollution prevention optional
7 held skills the biology technician role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role assist in clinical trials skill
- not needed by the target role biological chemistry knowledge
- not needed by the target role clinical cytology knowledge
- not needed by the target role communicable diseases knowledge
- not needed by the target role immunology knowledge
- not needed by the target role parasitology knowledge
- not needed by the target role pharmaceutical industry knowledge
14 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held computational biology required
- required, not held cryopreservation required
- optional, not held applied zoology optional
- optional, not held evolutionary biology optional
- optional, not held genomics optional
- optional, not held animal welfare legislation optional
- optional, not held biosecurity optional
- optional, not held chemistry optional
- optional, not held ecology optional
- optional, not held environmental legislation optional
- optional, not held oceanography optional
- optional, not held pathology optional
- optional, not held pharmacology optional
- optional, not held pollution prevention optional
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.