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

horse trainertoanimal care attendant

A horse trainer already meets 48% of what the animal care attendant role asks for. The move turns on 12 required skills not yet in the profile.

From horse trainer
48%
Overlap1
To animal care attendant
19 Skills carried over
12 Required, not held
62.3 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

48%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

62.3/ 100

1 Share of the animal care attendant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the horse trainer 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 animal care attendant role treats 16 of its required skills as things a horse trainer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • advise on animal welfare
  • anatomy of animals
  • animal behaviour
  • animal welfare
  • animal welfare legislation
  • apply animal hygiene practices

What stands in the way is 12 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 19 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A animal care attendant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a horse trainer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held provide animal training handling and moving
  • already held provide an enriching environment for animals handling and moving
  • already held treat animals ethically assisting and caring
  • already held implement exercise activities for animals handling and moving
  • already held assess animal's condition information skills
  • already held make decisions regarding the animal's welfare management skills

All 19 carried skills, including the 16 the animal care attendant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 31 missing skills fall into 10 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 handling and moving 7 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held assist in transportation of animals required
  • required, not held breed reptiles required
  • required, not held control animal movement required
  • required, not held groom animals required
  • required, not held maintain animal accommodation hygienic required
  • required, not held manage animal welfare required
  • required, not held handle veterinary emergencies required
  • optional, not held establish aquarium optional
  • optional, not held locate microchip in animals optional
  • optional, not held care for juvenile animals optional
  • optional, not held handle veterinary patients optional
  • optional, not held understand the animal's situation optional
02 agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary 2 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held environmental enrichment for animals required
  • required, not held animal nutrition required
  • optional, not held animal production science optional
  • optional, not held animal training optional
03 information skills 1 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held manage animal biosecurity required
  • optional, not held calculate rates per hours optional
  • optional, not held take advantage of learning opportunities in veterinary science optional
  • optional, not held apply numeracy skills optional
04 assisting and caring 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held apply safe work practices in a veterinary setting required
  • optional, not held deal with challenging people optional
05 services 1 required
  • required, not held safe work practices in a veterinary setting required
06 communication, collaboration and creativity 4 supplementary
  • optional, not held collaborate with animal related professionals optional
  • optional, not held interview animal owners on animals' conditions optional
  • optional, not held create solutions to problems optional
  • optional, not held use different communication channels optional

4 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a animal care attendant 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 19 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held advise on animal welfare skill
  • already held anatomy of animals knowledge
  • already held animal behaviour knowledge
  • already held animal welfare knowledge
  • already held animal welfare legislation knowledge
  • already held apply animal hygiene practices skill
  • already held assess animal behaviour skill
  • already held biosecurity related to animals knowledge
  • already held implement exercise activities for animals skill
  • already held monitor the welfare of animals skill
  • already held physiology of animals knowledge
  • already held provide an enriching environment for animals skill
  • already held provide animal training skill
  • already held provide first aid to animals skill
  • already held provide nutrition to animals skill
  • already held signs of animal illness knowledge
  • already held assess animal's condition skill
  • already held make decisions regarding the animal's welfare skill
  • already held treat animals ethically skill
The 4 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 information and communication technologies (icts) 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held microchip scanners optional
08 management skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held cope with challenging circumstances in the veterinary sector optional
09 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held animal species optional
10 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held have computer literacy optional
19 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held establish aquarium optional
  • optional, not held locate microchip in animals optional
  • optional, not held microchip scanners optional
  • optional, not held animal production science optional
  • optional, not held animal training optional
  • optional, not held calculate rates per hours optional
  • optional, not held care for juvenile animals optional
  • optional, not held collaborate with animal related professionals optional
  • optional, not held cope with challenging circumstances in the veterinary sector optional
  • optional, not held handle veterinary patients optional
  • optional, not held interview animal owners on animals' conditions optional
  • optional, not held take advantage of learning opportunities in veterinary science optional
  • optional, not held understand the animal's situation optional
  • optional, not held animal species optional
  • optional, not held apply numeracy skills optional
  • optional, not held create solutions to problems optional
  • optional, not held deal with challenging people optional
  • optional, not held have computer literacy optional
  • optional, not held use different communication channels optional
19 held skills the animal care attendant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role advise customers on appropriate pet care skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on animal purchase skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on care products for pets skill
  • not needed by the target role assess customers skill
  • not needed by the target role breed-specific behaviour of horses knowledge
  • not needed by the target role care for horses skill
  • not needed by the target role clean stalls skill
  • not needed by the target role create animal records skill
  • not needed by the target role design plans to address undesirable behaviour in animals skill
  • not needed by the target role design training programmes for animals skill
  • not needed by the target role design training programmes for individuals and animals skill
  • not needed by the target role develop an animal handling strategy skill
  • not needed by the target role horse anatomy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role teach young horses skill
  • not needed by the target role train animals and individuals to work together skill
  • not needed by the target role train horses skill
  • not needed by the target role transport horses skill
  • not needed by the target role work with veterinarians skill
  • not needed by the target role young horses training knowledge
7 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 environmental enrichment for animals required
  • required, not held safe work practices in a veterinary setting required
  • required, not held animal nutrition required
  • optional, not held microchip scanners optional
  • optional, not held animal production science optional
  • optional, not held animal training optional
  • optional, not held animal species optional
Index

Other moves recorded from horse trainer

Full index of moves from horse trainer

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.