customs and excise officertoshipping agent
A customs and excise officer already meets 32% of what the shipping agent role asks for. The move turns on 7 required skills not yet in the profile.
32%
64.4/ 100
1 Share of the shipping agent role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the customs and excise 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 this move works
A shipping agent role treats 5 of its required skills as things a customs and excise officer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- control trade commercial documentation
- international import export regulations
- manage import export licenses
- provide advice to clients in terms of export restrictions
- provide advice to clients in terms of import restrictions
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 · What you already bring
Of the 6 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A shipping agent role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a customs and excise officer background worth leading with.
- already held provide advice to clients in terms of export restrictions communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held provide advice to clients in terms of import restrictions communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held manage import export licenses information skills
- already held coordinate import transportation activities management skills
- already held control trade commercial documentation assisting and caring
- already held international import export regulations business, administration and law
All 6 carried skills, including the 5 the shipping agent role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 19 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.
- required, not held apply procedures to ensure cargo complies with customs regulations required
- required, not held ensure compliance with port regulations required
- required, not held comply with regulations related to export in different countries required
- required, not held liaise with port users required
- required, not held make bids in forward auctions required
- optional, not held book cargo optional
- optional, not held liaise with transportation services optional
- optional, not held create import-export commercial documentation optional
- required, not held keep up-to-date to current customs regulations required
- optional, not held analyse shipping rates optional
- optional, not held handle shipment paperwork optional
- optional, not held inspect freight optional
- optional, not held keep written records of cargo optional
- optional, not held observe freight shipment loaders optional
- optional, not held prepare bills of lading optional
- required, not held port regulation required
- optional, not held oversee arrival and departure of ships into port optional
- optional, not held coordinate export transportation activities optional
- optional, not held administer multi-modal logistics optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a shipping agent role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 apply procedures to ensure cargo complies with customs regulations skill · sector specific
- 02 ensure compliance with port regulations skill · sector specific
- 03 keep up-to-date to current customs regulations 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 6 skills that carry over
- already held control trade commercial documentation skill
- already held international import export regulations knowledge
- already held manage import export licenses skill
- already held provide advice to clients in terms of export restrictions skill
- already held provide advice to clients in terms of import restrictions skill
- already held coordinate import transportation activities skill
12 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held oversee arrival and departure of ships into port optional
- optional, not held analyse shipping rates optional
- optional, not held book cargo optional
- optional, not held coordinate export transportation activities optional
- optional, not held handle shipment paperwork optional
- optional, not held inspect freight optional
- optional, not held keep written records of cargo optional
- optional, not held liaise with transportation services optional
- optional, not held observe freight shipment loaders optional
- optional, not held prepare bills of lading optional
- optional, not held administer multi-modal logistics optional
- optional, not held create import-export commercial documentation optional
24 held skills the shipping agent role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role calculate tax skill
- not needed by the target role check official documents skill
- not needed by the target role comply with legal regulations skill
- not needed by the target role conduct research interview skill
- not needed by the target role give instructions to staff skill
- not needed by the target role handle surveillance equipment skill
- not needed by the target role illegal substances knowledge
- not needed by the target role import export regulations of dangerous chemicals knowledge
- not needed by the target role international business knowledge
- not needed by the target role international taxation of transfer prices knowledge
- not needed by the target role maintain operational communications skill
- not needed by the target role patrol areas skill
- not needed by the target role prepare documentation for international shipping skill
- not needed by the target role present evidence skill
- not needed by the target role process payments skill
- not needed by the target role regulations for international transportation knowledge
- not needed by the target role respond to enquiries skill
- not needed by the target role select items for auction skill
- not needed by the target role tax legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role train animals for professional purposes skill
- not needed by the target role transport dangerous goods skill
- not needed by the target role undertake inspections skill
- not needed by the target role use different communication channels skill
- not needed by the target role write work-related reports 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.
- required, not held port regulation required
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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.