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

ICT presales engineertoICT product manager

A ICT presales engineer already meets 20% of what the ICT product manager role asks for. The move turns on 17 required skills not yet in the profile.

From ICT presales engineer
20%
Overlap1
To ICT product manager
7 Skills carried over
17 Required, not held
81.9 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

20%

Learning distance A rebuild

81.9/ 100

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

  • ICT market
  • ICT system user requirements
  • define technical requirements
  • define technology strategy
  • perform market research
  • product comprehension

What stands in the way is 17 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 7 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A ICT product manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a ICT presales engineer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held ICT sales methodologies business, administration and law
  • already held ICT market business, administration and law
  • already held ICT system user requirements information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held define technology strategy management skills
  • already held define technical requirements management skills
  • already held perform market research information skills

All 7 carried skills, including the 6 the ICT product manager role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 43 missing skills fall into 7 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 management skills 6 required
  • required, not held assess ICT knowledge required
  • required, not held perform product planning required
  • required, not held create project specifications required
  • required, not held manage budgets required
  • required, not held manage schedule of tasks required
  • required, not held plan product management required
02 information skills 4 required
  • required, not held conduct impact evaluation of ICT processes on business required
  • required, not held monitor technology trends required
  • required, not held perform risk analysis required
  • required, not held provide cost benefit analysis reports required
03 information and communication technologies (icts) 3 required, 16 supplementary
  • required, not held ICT software specifications required
  • required, not held ICT hardware specifications required
  • required, not held systems development life-cycle required
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held DevOps optional
  • optional, not held ICT process quality models optional
  • optional, not held Open source model optional
  • optional, not held Outsourcing model optional
  • optional, not held Prototyping development optional
  • optional, not held Rapid application development optional
  • optional, not held Spiral development optional
  • optional, not held Waterfall development optional
  • optional, not held hybrid model optional
  • optional, not held incremental development optional
  • optional, not held iterative development optional
  • optional, not held service-oriented modelling optional
  • optional, not held software design methodologies optional
  • optional, not held trading software optional
  • optional, not held digital systems optional
04 business, administration and law 2 required, 6 supplementary
  • required, not held cost management required
  • required, not held advertising techniques required
  • optional, not held ICT project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT quality policy optional
  • optional, not held ICT security legislation optional
  • optional, not held business process modelling optional
  • optional, not held innovation processes optional
  • optional, not held quality standards optional
05 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held manage contracts required
  • optional, not held interact with users to gather requirements optional
  • optional, not held manage localisation optional
06 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held ICT infrastructure required
  • optional, not held engineering processes optional

1 further area in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a ICT product manager 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 7 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held ICT market knowledge
  • already held ICT system user requirements knowledge
  • already held define technical requirements skill
  • already held define technology strategy skill
  • already held perform market research skill
  • already held product comprehension knowledge
  • already held ICT sales methodologies knowledge
The 1 learning area not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held perform online data analysis optional
26 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held DevOps optional
  • optional, not held ICT process quality models optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT quality policy optional
  • optional, not held ICT security legislation optional
  • optional, not held Open source model optional
  • optional, not held Outsourcing model optional
  • optional, not held Prototyping development optional
  • optional, not held Rapid application development optional
  • optional, not held Spiral development optional
  • optional, not held Waterfall development optional
  • optional, not held business process modelling optional
  • optional, not held engineering processes optional
  • optional, not held hybrid model optional
  • optional, not held incremental development optional
  • optional, not held innovation processes optional
  • optional, not held interact with users to gather requirements optional
  • optional, not held iterative development optional
  • optional, not held service-oriented modelling optional
  • optional, not held software design methodologies optional
  • optional, not held trading software optional
  • optional, not held digital systems optional
  • optional, not held manage localisation optional
  • optional, not held perform online data analysis optional
  • optional, not held quality standards optional
28 held skills the ICT product manager role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role SAS language knowledge
  • not needed by the target role apply conflict management skill
  • not needed by the target role apply statistical analysis techniques skill
  • not needed by the target role business intelligence knowledge
  • not needed by the target role comply with legal regulations skill
  • not needed by the target role coordinate technological activities skill
  • not needed by the target role customer segmentation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role deliver a sales pitch skill
  • not needed by the target role develop account strategy skill
  • not needed by the target role develop revenue generation strategies skill
  • not needed by the target role digital marketing techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role emergent technologies knowledge
  • not needed by the target role hardware components knowledge
  • not needed by the target role hardware components suppliers knowledge
  • not needed by the target role identify customer's needs skill
  • not needed by the target role identify training needs skill
  • not needed by the target role implement marketing strategies skill
  • not needed by the target role keep up to date on product knowledge skill
  • not needed by the target role market pricing knowledge
  • not needed by the target role perform project management skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare scientific reports skill
  • not needed by the target role produce sales reports skill
  • not needed by the target role set sales goals skill
  • not needed by the target role software components libraries knowledge
  • not needed by the target role software components suppliers knowledge
  • not needed by the target role statistical analysis system software knowledge
  • not needed by the target role supervise sales activities skill
  • not needed by the target role use different communication channels skill
29 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 infrastructure required
  • required, not held ICT software specifications required
  • required, not held cost management required
  • required, not held ICT hardware specifications required
  • required, not held advertising techniques required
  • required, not held systems development life-cycle required
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held DevOps optional
  • optional, not held ICT process quality models optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT quality policy optional
  • optional, not held ICT security legislation optional
  • optional, not held Open source model optional
  • optional, not held Outsourcing model optional
  • optional, not held Prototyping development optional
  • optional, not held Rapid application development optional
  • optional, not held Spiral development optional
  • optional, not held Waterfall development optional
  • optional, not held business process modelling optional
  • optional, not held engineering processes optional
  • optional, not held hybrid model optional
  • optional, not held incremental development optional
  • optional, not held innovation processes optional
  • optional, not held iterative development optional
  • optional, not held service-oriented modelling optional
  • optional, not held software design methodologies optional
  • optional, not held trading software optional
  • optional, not held digital systems optional
  • optional, not held quality standards optional
Index

Other moves recorded from ICT presales engineer

Full index of moves from ICT presales engineer

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.