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

dating service consultanttolife coach

A dating service consultant already meets 47% of what the life coach role asks for. The move turns on 7 required skills not yet in the profile.

From dating service consultant
47%
Overlap1
To life coach
14 Skills carried over
7 Required, not held
48.9 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

47%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

48.9/ 100

1 Share of the life coach role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the dating service consultant 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 life coach role treats 5 of its required skills as things a dating service consultant already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • give advice on personal matters
  • listen actively
  • maintain customer service
  • maintain relationship with customers
  • use consulting techniques

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 14 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A life coach role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a dating service consultant background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held teach communication to clients communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held give advice on personal matters assisting and caring
  • already held assess character management skills
  • already held perform lectures communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held use consulting techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held manage a small-to-medium business management skills

All 14 carried skills, including the 5 the life coach role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 13 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 communication, collaboration and creativity 5 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held assist clients with personal development required
  • required, not held coach clients required
  • required, not held communicate with customers required
  • required, not held counsel clients required
  • required, not held create solutions to problems required
  • optional, not held facilitate job market access optional
  • optional, not held give constructive feedback optional
  • optional, not held provide career counselling optional
02 assisting and caring 1 required
  • required, not held help clients make decisions during counselling sessions required
03 information skills 1 required
  • required, not held evaluate clients' progress required
04 management skills 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held identify training needs optional
  • optional, not held manage personal professional development optional
05 social sciences, journalism and information 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held rhetoric optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a life coach 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 14 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held give advice on personal matters skill
  • already held listen actively skill
  • already held maintain customer service skill
  • already held maintain relationship with customers skill
  • already held use consulting techniques skill
  • already held administer appointments skill
  • already held assess character skill
  • already held develop professional network skill
  • already held keep personal administration skill
  • already held maintain professional administration skill
  • already held manage a small-to-medium business skill
  • already held perform lectures skill
  • already held teach communication to clients skill
  • already held use different communication channels skill
6 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held facilitate job market access optional
  • optional, not held give constructive feedback optional
  • optional, not held identify training needs optional
  • optional, not held manage personal professional development optional
  • optional, not held provide career counselling optional
  • optional, not held rhetoric optional
18 held skills the life coach role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role advise on dating skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on online dating skill
  • not needed by the target role apply company policies skill
  • not needed by the target role apply knowledge of human behaviour skill
  • not needed by the target role assist clients with special needs skill
  • not needed by the target role document interviews skill
  • not needed by the target role identify customer's needs skill
  • not needed by the target role interview people skill
  • not needed by the target role manage tests skill
  • not needed by the target role match people skill
  • not needed by the target role perform dating coaching skill
  • not needed by the target role profile people skill
  • not needed by the target role promote human rights skill
  • not needed by the target role psychology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role set up dates skill
  • not needed by the target role sexology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role teach fashion to clients skill
  • not needed by the target role use personality tests 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held rhetoric optional
Index

Other moves recorded from dating service consultant

Full index of moves from dating service consultant

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.