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

legal policy officertolegislative drafter

A legal policy officer already meets 42% of what the legislative drafter role asks for. The move turns on 5 required skills not yet in the profile.

From legal policy officer
42%
Overlap1
To legislative drafter
7 Skills carried over
5 Required, not held
50.6 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

42%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

50.6/ 100

1 Share of the legislative drafter role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the legal policy officer 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 legislative drafter role treats 5 of its required skills as things a legal policy officer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • analyse legislation
  • constitutional law
  • legal research
  • provide legal advice
  • public law

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 7 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A legislative drafter role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a legal policy officer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held analyse legislation information skills
  • already held constitutional law business, administration and law
  • already held public law business, administration and law
  • already held international law business, administration and law
  • already held provide legal advice communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held legal research business, administration and law

All 7 carried skills, including the 5 the legislative drafter role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 13 missing skills fall into 4 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 communication, collaboration and creativity 3 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held draft legislation required
  • required, not held provide written content required
  • required, not held use communication techniques required
  • optional, not held examine legislative drafts optional
  • optional, not held show diplomacy optional
  • optional, not held write work-related reports optional
02 business, administration and law 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held legislation procedure required
  • optional, not held customer service optional
  • optional, not held procurement legislation optional
03 information skills 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held structure information required
  • optional, not held manage project information optional
  • optional, not held report analysis results optional
04 management skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held apply strategic thinking optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a legislative drafter 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 analyse legislation skill
  • already held constitutional law knowledge
  • already held legal research knowledge
  • already held provide legal advice skill
  • already held public law knowledge
  • already held create solutions to problems skill
  • already held international law knowledge
8 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held customer service optional
  • optional, not held examine legislative drafts optional
  • optional, not held manage project information optional
  • optional, not held apply strategic thinking optional
  • optional, not held procurement legislation optional
  • optional, not held report analysis results optional
  • optional, not held show diplomacy optional
  • optional, not held write work-related reports optional
39 held skills the legislative drafter role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role European Structural and Investment Funds regulations knowledge
  • not needed by the target role advise legislators skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on legal decisions skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on legislative acts skill
  • not needed by the target role air transport law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role analyse legal evidence skill
  • not needed by the target role anti-dumping law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role apply immigration law skill
  • not needed by the target role business law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role civil law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role commercial law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role competition law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role compile legal documents skill
  • not needed by the target role consumer law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role contract law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role corporate law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role criminal law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role customs law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role develop professional network skill
  • not needed by the target role education law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role election law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role employment law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role family law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role government policy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role government policy implementation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role immigration law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role insolvency law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role insurance law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role intellectual property law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role international human rights law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role labour law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role legal case management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role legal studies knowledge
  • not needed by the target role liaise with politicians skill
  • not needed by the target role manage government policy implementation skill
  • not needed by the target role perform scientific research skill
  • not needed by the target role policy analysis knowledge
  • not needed by the target role scientific research methodology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role social security law knowledge
3 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 legislation procedure required
  • optional, not held customer service optional
  • optional, not held procurement legislation optional
Index

Other moves recorded from legal policy officer

Full index of moves from legal policy officer

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.