information managertoarchivist
A information manager already meets 20% of what the archivist role asks for. The move turns on 14 required skills not yet in the profile.
20%
77.9/ 100
1 Share of the archivist role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the information manager 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 this move works
A archivist role treats 1 of its required skills as things a information manager already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- create semantic trees
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 · What you already bring
Of the 9 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A archivist role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a information manager background worth leading with.
- already held manage information access aids information skills
- already held create semantic trees information skills
- already held use software for data preservation working with computers
- already held perform customer management assisting and caring
- already held digitise documents working with computers
- already held manage digital documents working with computers
All 9 carried skills, including the 1 the archivist role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 18 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.
- required, not held appraise historical documents required
- required, not held facilitate access to information required
- required, not held manage digital archives required
- required, not held perform records management required
- required, not held study a collection required
- optional, not held develop classification systems optional
- required, not held collection management required
- required, not held digitization required
- optional, not held digital curation optional
- required, not held aid archive users with their enquiries required
- required, not held respect data protection principles required
- required, not held contextualise records collection required
- required, not held write scientific publications required
- required, not held manage archive users guidelines required
- optional, not held coordinate educational programmes optional
- optional, not held manage human resources optional
- required, not held conservation techniques required
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a archivist role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 aid archive users with their enquiries skill · occupation specific
- 02 appraise historical documents skill · occupation specific
- 03 contextualise records collection skill · occupation specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 9 skills that carry over
- already held create semantic trees skill
- already held digitise documents skill
- already held manage budgets skill
- already held manage digital documents skill
- already held manage information access aids skill
- already held perform customer management skill
- already held recruit employees skill
- already held use databases skill
- already held use software for data preservation skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
- required, not held store archival documents required
4 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held digital curation optional
- optional, not held develop classification systems optional
- optional, not held coordinate educational programmes optional
- optional, not held manage human resources optional
21 held skills the archivist role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role analyse big data skill
- not needed by the target role analyse information systems skill
- not needed by the target role assess informational needs skill
- not needed by the target role cooperate to resolve information issues skill
- not needed by the target role copyright legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role corporate sustainability knowledge
- not needed by the target role data quality assessment knowledge
- not needed by the target role design information system skill
- not needed by the target role develop information standards skill
- not needed by the target role develop organisational information goals skill
- not needed by the target role develop solutions to information issues skill
- not needed by the target role evaluate project plans skill
- not needed by the target role knowledge base knowledge
- not needed by the target role maintain information network hardware skill
- not needed by the target role manage data skill
- not needed by the target role manage digital identity skill
- not needed by the target role manage digital libraries skill
- not needed by the target role manage schedule of tasks skill
- not needed by the target role organisational learning knowledge
- not needed by the target role perform data mining skill
- not needed by the target role supervise daily information operations skill
4 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held collection management required
- required, not held conservation techniques required
- required, not held digitization required
- optional, not held digital curation optional
Other moves recorded from information manager
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.