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

coffee tastertogreen coffee buyer

A coffee taster already meets 47% of what the green coffee buyer role asks for. The move turns on 11 required skills not yet in the profile.

From coffee taster
47%
Overlap1
To green coffee buyer
16 Skills carried over
11 Required, not held
56.5 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

47%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

56.5/ 100

1 Share of the green coffee buyer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the coffee taster 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 green coffee buyer role treats 9 of its required skills as things a coffee taster already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • apply GMP
  • apply HACCP
  • apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
  • coffee characteristics
  • educate customers on coffee varieties
  • evaluate coffee characteristics

What stands in the way is 11 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 16 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A green coffee buyer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a coffee taster background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held coffee characteristics engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held evaluate coffee characteristics information skills
  • already held grade coffee beans information skills
  • already held perform coffee tastings information skills
  • already held types of coffee beans engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held educate customers on coffee varieties communication, collaboration and creativity

All 16 carried skills, including the 9 the green coffee buyer role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 17 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 communication, collaboration and creativity 5 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held carry out active selling required
  • required, not held build business relationships required
  • required, not held conduct extensive international travel required
  • required, not held negotiate buying conditions required
  • required, not held negotiate price required
  • optional, not held maintain relationship with customers optional
  • optional, not held maintain relationship with suppliers optional
  • optional, not held work in a food processing team optional
  • optional, not held apply foreign language for international trade optional
02 information skills 3 required
  • required, not held examine green coffee beans required
  • required, not held analyse consumer buying trends required
  • required, not held maintain updated professional knowledge required
03 engineering, manufacturing and construction 2 required
  • required, not held coffee grinding levels required
  • required, not held effects of pesticides in food raw materials required
04 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 required
  • required, not held match coffee grind to coffee type required
05 assisting and caring 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held give humanitarian support to local economies optional
06 business, administration and law 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held customer service optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a green coffee buyer 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 16 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held apply GMP skill
  • already held apply HACCP skill
  • already held apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages skill
  • already held coffee characteristics knowledge
  • already held educate customers on coffee varieties skill
  • already held evaluate coffee characteristics skill
  • already held food and beverage industry knowledge
  • already held grade coffee beans skill
  • already held types of coffee beans knowledge
  • already held analyse characteristics of food products at reception skill
  • already held have computer literacy skill
  • already held label samples skill
  • already held liaise with colleagues skill
  • already held liaise with managers skill
  • already held perform coffee tastings skill
  • already held perform public relations skill
6 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held give humanitarian support to local economies optional
  • optional, not held customer service optional
  • optional, not held maintain relationship with customers optional
  • optional, not held maintain relationship with suppliers optional
  • optional, not held work in a food processing team optional
  • optional, not held apply foreign language for international trade optional
12 held skills the green coffee buyer role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role act reliably skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse trends in the food and beverage industries skill
  • not needed by the target role boil water skill
  • not needed by the target role check processing parameters skill
  • not needed by the target role communicate with customers skill
  • not needed by the target role create coffee flavour profiles skill
  • not needed by the target role find new types of food and beverages skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain food specifications skill
  • not needed by the target role perform sensory evaluation of food products skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare specialised coffee skill
  • not needed by the target role temperature scales knowledge
  • not needed by the target role tolerate strong smells skill
3 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 coffee grinding levels required
  • required, not held effects of pesticides in food raw materials required
  • optional, not held customer service optional
Index

Other moves recorded from coffee taster

Full index of moves from coffee taster

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.