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

biology techniciantophysics technician

A biology technician already meets 35% of what the physics technician role asks for. The move turns on 7 required skills not yet in the profile.

From biology technician
35%
Overlap1
To physics technician
9 Skills carried over
7 Required, not held
60.9 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

35%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

60.9/ 100

1 Share of the physics technician role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the biology 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

Why this move works

A physics technician role treats 6 of its required skills as things a biology technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • analyse experimental laboratory data
  • apply safety procedures in laboratory
  • laboratory techniques
  • maintain laboratory equipment
  • perform laboratory tests
  • scientific research methodology

What stands in the way is 7 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 9 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A physics technician role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a biology technician background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held analyse experimental laboratory data information skills
  • already held maintain laboratory equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • already held calibrate laboratory equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • already held apply safety procedures in laboratory assisting and caring
  • already held laboratory techniques natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • already held perform laboratory tests working with machinery and specialised equipment

All 9 carried skills, including the 6 the physics technician role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 24 missing skills fall into 6 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 information skills 4 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held apply statistical analysis techniques required
  • required, not held execute analytical mathematical calculations required
  • required, not held gather experimental data required
  • required, not held report analysis results required
  • optional, not held interpret geophysical data optional
  • optional, not held analyse scientific data optional
  • optional, not held observe matter optional
02 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 required, 8 supplementary
  • required, not held physics required
  • optional, not held quantum mechanics optional
  • optional, not held acoustics optional
  • optional, not held astronomy optional
  • optional, not held geology optional
  • optional, not held geophysics optional
  • optional, not held mathematics optional
  • optional, not held statistics optional
  • optional, not held thermodynamics optional
03 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held assist scientific research required
  • optional, not held communicate with external laboratories optional
  • optional, not held write scientific publications optional
04 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held use measurement instruments required
  • optional, not held operate remote sensing equipment optional
  • optional, not held operate telescopes optional
05 health and welfare 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held densiometry optional
06 information and communication technologies (icts) 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held quantum computing optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a physics technician 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 9 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held analyse experimental laboratory data skill
  • already held apply safety procedures in laboratory skill
  • already held laboratory techniques knowledge
  • already held maintain laboratory equipment skill
  • already held perform laboratory tests skill
  • already held scientific research methodology knowledge
  • already held apply scientific methods skill
  • already held calibrate laboratory equipment skill
  • already held collect samples for analysis skill
17 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held densiometry optional
  • optional, not held interpret geophysical data optional
  • optional, not held quantum computing optional
  • optional, not held quantum mechanics optional
  • optional, not held acoustics optional
  • optional, not held analyse scientific data optional
  • optional, not held astronomy optional
  • optional, not held communicate with external laboratories optional
  • optional, not held geology optional
  • optional, not held geophysics optional
  • optional, not held mathematics optional
  • optional, not held observe matter optional
  • optional, not held operate remote sensing equipment optional
  • optional, not held operate telescopes optional
  • optional, not held statistics optional
  • optional, not held thermodynamics optional
  • optional, not held write scientific publications optional
42 held skills the physics technician role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role analyse blood samples skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse cell cultures skill
  • not needed by the target role animal welfare legislation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role applied zoology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role assist in the production of laboratory documentation skill
  • not needed by the target role biology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role biosecurity knowledge
  • not needed by the target role botany knowledge
  • not needed by the target role chemistry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role collect biological data skill
  • not needed by the target role collect reproductive cells skill
  • not needed by the target role computational biology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role cryopreservation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ecology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role environmental legislation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role evolutionary biology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role genomics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role hazardous waste storage knowledge
  • not needed by the target role keep task records skill
  • not needed by the target role label samples skill
  • not needed by the target role laboratory equipment knowledge
  • not needed by the target role life sciences knowledge
  • not needed by the target role maintain freelance database skill
  • not needed by the target role manage inventory skill
  • not needed by the target role microbiology-bacteriology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role molecular biology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role monitor the welfare of animals skill
  • not needed by the target role oceanography knowledge
  • not needed by the target role pathology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role perform fertility laboratory procedures skill
  • not needed by the target role perform field research skill
  • not needed by the target role perform scientific research skill
  • not needed by the target role perform stem cell transplantation skill
  • not needed by the target role pharmacology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role pollution prevention knowledge
  • not needed by the target role prepare visual data skill
  • not needed by the target role preserve samples skill
  • not needed by the target role stem cells knowledge
  • not needed by the target role use laboratory equipment skill
  • not needed by the target role virology knowledge

2 further entries not listed here

11 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 physics required
  • optional, not held densiometry optional
  • optional, not held quantum computing optional
  • optional, not held quantum mechanics optional
  • optional, not held acoustics optional
  • optional, not held astronomy optional
  • optional, not held geology optional
  • optional, not held geophysics optional
  • optional, not held mathematics optional
  • optional, not held statistics optional
  • optional, not held thermodynamics optional
Index

Other moves recorded from biology technician

Full index of moves from biology technician

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.