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

import export specialist in machine toolstoimport export specialist in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery

A import export specialist in machine tools already meets 80% of what the import export specialist in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery role asks for. The move turns on 5 required skills not yet in the profile.

From import export specialist in machine tools
80%
Overlap1
To import export specialist in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery
20 Skills carried over
5 Required, not held
25.6 Difficulty2
Career overlap Very strong match

80%

Learning distance Short step

25.6/ 100

1 Share of the import export specialist in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the import export specialist in machine tools 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 specialist in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery role treats 20 of its required skills as things a import export specialist in machine tools already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • administer multi-modal logistics
  • apply conflict management
  • apply export strategies
  • apply import strategies
  • build rapport with people from different cultural backgrounds
  • communicate with shipment forwarders

What stands in the way is 5 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 20 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A import export specialist 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 machine tools background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held handle quotes from prospective shippers management skills
  • already held apply export strategies communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held apply import strategies communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held monitor merchandise delivery information skills
  • already held file claims with insurance companies information skills
  • already held administer multi-modal logistics management skills

All 20 carried skills, including the 20 the import export specialist in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 5 missing skills fall into 3 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 engineering, manufacturing and construction 2 required
  • required, not held general principles of food law required
  • required, not held sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery products required
02 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 2 required
  • required, not held protective measures against the introduction of organisms required
  • required, not held regulations on substances required
03 services 1 required
  • required, not held food hygiene rules required
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a import export specialist 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 20 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held administer multi-modal logistics skill
  • already held apply conflict management skill
  • already held apply export strategies skill
  • already held apply import strategies skill
  • already held build rapport with people from different cultural backgrounds skill
  • already held communicate with shipment forwarders skill
  • already held create import-export commercial documentation skill
  • already held create solutions to problems skill
  • already held embargo regulations knowledge
  • already held ensure customs compliance skill
  • already held file claims with insurance companies skill
  • already held handle carriers skill
  • already held handle quotes from prospective shippers skill
  • 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 monitor merchandise delivery skill
  • already held plan transport operations skill
  • already held speak different languages skill
0 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
4 held skills the import export specialist in sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role capital goods industry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role export regulations of dual-use goods knowledge
  • not needed by the target role import export regulations of dangerous chemicals knowledge
  • not needed by the target role machine tools knowledge
5 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 food hygiene rules required
  • required, not held general principles of food law required
  • required, not held protective measures against the introduction of organisms required
  • required, not held regulations on substances required
  • required, not held sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery products required
Index

Other moves recorded from import export specialist in machine tools

Full index of moves from import export specialist in machine tools

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.