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

mobile devices techniciantomobile phone repair technician

A mobile devices technician already meets 44% of what the mobile phone repair technician role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.

From mobile devices technician
44%
Overlap1
To mobile phone repair technician
17 Skills carried over
10 Required, not held
60.5 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

44%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

60.5/ 100

1 Share of the mobile phone repair technician role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the mobile devices technician 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 mobile phone repair technician role treats 11 of its required skills as things a mobile devices technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • Android (mobile operating systems)
  • BlackBerry
  • create solutions to problems
  • disassemble mobile devices
  • handle warranty for digital equipment
  • iOS

What stands in the way is 10 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 17 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A mobile phone repair technician role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a mobile devices technician background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held disassemble mobile devices working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • already held repair mobile devices working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • already held mobile device management information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held handle warranty for digital equipment assisting and caring
  • already held mobile device software frameworks information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held Android (mobile operating systems) information and communication technologies (icts)

All 17 carried skills, including the 11 the mobile phone repair technician role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 30 missing skills fall into 8 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, 10 supplementary
  • required, not held provide customer information related to repairs required
  • required, not held maintain customer service required
  • required, not held troubleshoot required
  • optional, not held maintain relationship with suppliers optional
  • optional, not held sell telecommunication products optional
  • optional, not held apply technical communication skills optional
  • optional, not held communicate by telephone optional
  • optional, not held develop professional network optional
  • optional, not held ensure compliance with warranty contracts optional
  • optional, not held negotiate supplier arrangements optional
  • optional, not held order supplies optional
  • optional, not held perform services in a flexible manner optional
  • optional, not held work in shifts optional
02 working with machinery and specialised equipment 2 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held operate two-way radio systems required
  • required, not held maintain equipment required
  • optional, not held drive vehicles optional
03 assisting and caring 2 required
  • required, not held apply company policies required
  • required, not held provide customer follow-up services required
04 information skills 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held maintain records of maintenance interventions required
  • optional, not held keep stock records optional
  • optional, not held report to the team leader optional
05 constructing 1 required
  • required, not held perform test run required
06 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 required
  • required, not held electronics required

2 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a mobile phone repair technician 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 17 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held Android (mobile operating systems) knowledge
  • already held BlackBerry knowledge
  • already held create solutions to problems skill
  • already held disassemble mobile devices skill
  • already held handle warranty for digital equipment skill
  • already held iOS knowledge
  • already held mobile device software frameworks knowledge
  • already held mobile operating systems knowledge
  • already held repair mobile devices skill
  • already held use precision tools skill
  • already held use repair manuals skill
  • already held assist customers skill
  • already held hardware components suppliers knowledge
  • already held implement a firewall skill
  • already held implement a virtual private network skill
  • already held mobile device management knowledge
  • already held software components suppliers knowledge
The 2 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 management skills 6 supplementary
  • optional, not held issue sales invoices optional
  • optional, not held manage a small-to-medium business optional
  • optional, not held administer appointments optional
  • optional, not held maintain professional administration optional
  • optional, not held make independent operating decisions optional
  • optional, not held manage schedule of tasks optional
08 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held install software optional
20 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held issue sales invoices optional
  • optional, not held keep stock records optional
  • optional, not held maintain relationship with suppliers optional
  • optional, not held manage a small-to-medium business optional
  • optional, not held report to the team leader optional
  • optional, not held sell telecommunication products optional
  • optional, not held administer appointments optional
  • optional, not held apply technical communication skills optional
  • optional, not held communicate by telephone optional
  • optional, not held develop professional network optional
  • optional, not held drive vehicles optional
  • optional, not held ensure compliance with warranty contracts optional
  • optional, not held install software optional
  • optional, not held maintain professional administration optional
  • optional, not held make independent operating decisions optional
  • optional, not held manage schedule of tasks optional
  • optional, not held negotiate supplier arrangements optional
  • optional, not held order supplies optional
  • optional, not held perform services in a flexible manner optional
  • optional, not held work in shifts optional
57 held skills the mobile phone repair technician role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role ABAP knowledge
  • not needed by the target role AJAX knowledge
  • not needed by the target role APL knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ASP.NET knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Assembly (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role C# knowledge
  • not needed by the target role C++ knowledge
  • not needed by the target role COBOL knowledge
  • not needed by the target role CoffeeScript knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Common Lisp knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Erlang knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Groovy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Haskell knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT debugging tools knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT market knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT system user requirements knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Java (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role JavaScript knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Lisp knowledge
  • not needed by the target role MATLAB knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ML (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Objective-C knowledge
  • not needed by the target role OpenEdge Advanced Business Language knowledge
  • not needed by the target role PHP knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Pascal (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Perl knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Prolog (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Python (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role R knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Ruby (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role SAP R3 knowledge
  • not needed by the target role SAS language knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Scala knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Scratch (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Smalltalk (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Swift (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role TypeScript knowledge
  • not needed by the target role VBScript knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Visual Basic knowledge
  • not needed by the target role computer programming knowledge

17 further entries not listed here

1 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 electronics required
Index

Other moves recorded from mobile devices technician

Full index of moves from mobile devices technician

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.