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

import export specialist in coffee, tea, cocoa and spicestoimport export manager in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery

A import export specialist in coffee, tea, cocoa and spices already meets 50% of what the import export manager in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery role asks for. The move turns on 14 required skills not yet in the profile.

From import export specialist in coffee, tea, cocoa and spices
50%
Overlap1
To import export manager in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery
14 Skills carried over
14 Required, not held
55.2 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

50%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

55.2/ 100

1 Share of the import export manager in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the import export specialist in coffee, tea, cocoa and spices 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 import export manager in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery role treats 14 of its required skills as things a import export specialist in coffee, tea, cocoa and spices already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • apply conflict management
  • build rapport with people from different cultural backgrounds
  • create solutions to problems
  • embargo regulations
  • ensure customs compliance
  • food hygiene rules

What stands in the way is 14 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 import export manager in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a import export specialist in coffee, tea, cocoa and spices background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held protective measures against the introduction of organisms natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • already held food hygiene rules services
  • already held general principles of food law engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held regulations on substances natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • already held embargo regulations business, administration and law
  • already held build rapport with people from different cultural backgrounds communication, collaboration and creativity

All 14 carried skills, including the 14 the import export manager in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 14 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 information skills 5 required
  • required, not held produce sales reports required
  • required, not held comprehend financial business terminology required
  • required, not held maintain financial records required
  • required, not held monitor international market performance required
  • required, not held perform financial risk management in international trade required
02 management skills 5 required
  • required, not held direct distribution operations required
  • required, not held managing a business with great care required
  • required, not held set import export strategies required
  • required, not held conduct performance measurement required
  • required, not held manage processes required
03 assisting and caring 2 required
  • required, not held abide by business ethical code of conducts required
  • required, not held control trade commercial documentation required
04 business, administration and law 1 required
  • required, not held export control principles required
05 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 required
  • required, not held sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery products required
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a import export manager in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery 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 apply conflict management skill
  • already held build rapport with people from different cultural backgrounds skill
  • already held create solutions to problems skill
  • already held embargo regulations knowledge
  • already held ensure customs compliance skill
  • already held food hygiene rules knowledge
  • already held general principles of food law knowledge
  • already held have computer literacy skill
  • already held international commercial transactions rules knowledge
  • already held international import export regulations knowledge
  • already held meet deadlines skill
  • already held protective measures against the introduction of organisms knowledge
  • already held regulations on substances knowledge
  • already held speak different languages skill
0 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
12 held skills the import export manager in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role administer multi-modal logistics skill
  • not needed by the target role apply export strategies skill
  • not needed by the target role apply import strategies skill
  • not needed by the target role coffee, tea, cocoa and spice products knowledge
  • not needed by the target role communicate with shipment forwarders skill
  • not needed by the target role create import-export commercial documentation skill
  • not needed by the target role file claims with insurance companies skill
  • not needed by the target role handle carriers skill
  • not needed by the target role handle quotes from prospective shippers skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor merchandise delivery skill
  • not needed by the target role plan transport operations skill
  • not needed by the target role types of coffee beans knowledge
2 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 sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery products required
  • required, not held export control principles required
Index
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.