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

ICT business analysttoICT consultant

A ICT business analyst already meets 25% of what the ICT consultant role asks for. The move turns on 15 required skills not yet in the profile.

From ICT business analyst
25%
Overlap1
To ICT consultant
8 Skills carried over
15 Required, not held
76.5 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

25%

Learning distance A rebuild

76.5/ 100

1 Share of the ICT consultant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the ICT business analyst 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 ICT consultant role treats 6 of its required skills as things a ICT business analyst already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • define technical requirements
  • identify customer requirements
  • legal requirements of ICT products
  • manage ICT project
  • provide user documentation
  • visual presentation techniques

What stands in the way is 15 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 8 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A ICT consultant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a ICT business analyst background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held provide user documentation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held manage ICT project management skills
  • already held interact with users to gather requirements communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held identify customer requirements information skills
  • already held legal requirements of ICT products business, administration and law
  • already held systems development life-cycle information and communication technologies (icts)

All 8 carried skills, including the 6 the ICT consultant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 30 missing skills fall into 9 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 working with computers 6 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held analyse ICT system required
  • required, not held analyse software specifications required
  • required, not held manage changes in ICT system required
  • required, not held manage standard enterprise resource planning system required
  • required, not held optimise choice of ICT solution required
  • required, not held solve ICT system problems required
  • optional, not held use e-services optional
02 communication, collaboration and creativity 3 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held provide ICT consulting advice required
  • required, not held identify technological needs required
  • required, not held manage contracts required
  • optional, not held maintain relationship with customers optional
03 information skills 2 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held keep up with the latest information systems solutions required
  • required, not held verify formal ICT specifications required
  • optional, not held identify ICT user needs optional
  • optional, not held keep task records optional
04 business, administration and law 1 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held ICT sales methodologies required
  • optional, not held Agile project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management methodologies optional
  • optional, not held Process-based management optional
  • optional, not held lean project management optional
  • optional, not held copyright legislation optional
05 information and communication technologies (icts) 1 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held ICT system integration required
  • optional, not held ICT process quality models optional
  • optional, not held software components libraries optional
  • optional, not held hardware components optional
06 management skills 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held create project specifications required
  • optional, not held manage ICT change request process optional

3 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a ICT consultant 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 8 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held define technical requirements skill
  • already held identify customer requirements skill
  • already held legal requirements of ICT products knowledge
  • already held manage ICT project skill
  • already held provide user documentation skill
  • already held visual presentation techniques knowledge
  • already held interact with users to gather requirements skill
  • already held systems development life-cycle knowledge
The 3 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 constructing 1 required
  • required, not held monitor system performance required
08 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held emergent technologies optional
09 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held game theory optional
15 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held Agile project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT process quality models optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management methodologies optional
  • optional, not held Process-based management optional
  • optional, not held identify ICT user needs optional
  • optional, not held lean project management optional
  • optional, not held maintain relationship with customers optional
  • optional, not held manage ICT change request process optional
  • optional, not held software components libraries optional
  • optional, not held copyright legislation optional
  • optional, not held emergent technologies optional
  • optional, not held game theory optional
  • optional, not held hardware components optional
  • optional, not held keep task records optional
  • optional, not held use e-services optional
29 held skills the ICT consultant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role ICT market knowledge
  • not needed by the target role analyse business processes skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse business requirements skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse the context of an organisation skill
  • not needed by the target role apply change management skill
  • not needed by the target role business ICT systems knowledge
  • not needed by the target role business intelligence knowledge
  • not needed by the target role business process modelling knowledge
  • not needed by the target role business requirements techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role business strategy concepts knowledge
  • not needed by the target role cloud technologies knowledge
  • not needed by the target role create business process models skill
  • not needed by the target role decision support systems knowledge
  • not needed by the target role design process skill
  • not needed by the target role digital systems knowledge
  • not needed by the target role execute analytical mathematical calculations skill
  • not needed by the target role identify legal requirements skill
  • not needed by the target role implement strategic planning skill
  • not needed by the target role information architecture knowledge
  • not needed by the target role information categorisation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role information extraction knowledge
  • not needed by the target role innovation processes knowledge
  • not needed by the target role internal risk management policy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role organisational resilience knowledge
  • not needed by the target role product usage risks analysis knowledge
  • not needed by the target role propose ICT solutions to business problems skill
  • not needed by the target role provide cost benefit analysis reports skill
  • not needed by the target role translate requirements into visual design skill
  • not needed by the target role unstructured data knowledge
12 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 ICT sales methodologies required
  • required, not held ICT system integration required
  • optional, not held Agile project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT process quality models optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management methodologies optional
  • optional, not held Process-based management optional
  • optional, not held lean project management optional
  • optional, not held software components libraries optional
  • optional, not held copyright legislation optional
  • optional, not held emergent technologies optional
  • optional, not held game theory optional
  • optional, not held hardware components optional
Index

Other moves recorded from ICT business analyst

Full index of moves from ICT business analyst

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.