moving truck drivertoparking valet
A moving truck driver already meets 26% of what the parking valet role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.
26%
68.6/ 100
1 Share of the parking valet role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the moving truck driver 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 parking valet role treats 4 of its required skills as things a moving truck driver already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- communicate with customers
- interpret traffic signals
- perform defensive driving
- road traffic laws
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 · What you already bring
Of the 7 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A parking valet role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a moving truck driver background worth leading with.
- already held execute vehicle maintenance handling and moving
- already held perform defensive driving working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held drive in urban areas working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held mechanical components of vehicles engineering, manufacturing and construction
- already held interpret traffic signals assisting and caring
- already held road traffic laws business, administration and law
All 7 carried skills, including the 4 the parking valet role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 22 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 follow verbal instructions required
- required, not held maintain customer service required
- required, not held work in shifts required
- optional, not held provide customers with price information optional
- required, not held drive automatic car required
- required, not held drive vehicles required
- required, not held park guest's vehicle required
- optional, not held operate radio equipment optional
- required, not held assist passengers required
- required, not held apply company policies required
- optional, not held assist disable passengers optional
- optional, not held provide directions to guests optional
- optional, not held ensure protection of car parking optional
- optional, not held greet guests optional
- optional, not held handle surveillance equipment optional
- required, not held company policies required
- required, not held maintain personal hygiene standards required
- optional, not held clean vehicle interiors optional
- optional, not held handle guest luggage optional
- optional, not held wash vehicles optional
- optional, not held lift heavy weights optional
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a parking valet role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 assist passengers skill · sector specific
- 02 company policies knowledge · sector specific
- 03 apply company policies skill · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 7 skills that carry over
- already held communicate with customers skill
- already held interpret traffic signals skill
- already held perform defensive driving skill
- already held road traffic laws knowledge
- already held drive in urban areas skill
- already held execute vehicle maintenance skill
- already held mechanical components of vehicles knowledge
The 1 learning area not shown above
- optional, not held maintain vehicle appearance optional
12 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held assist disable passengers optional
- optional, not held clean vehicle interiors optional
- optional, not held handle guest luggage optional
- optional, not held maintain vehicle appearance optional
- optional, not held provide customers with price information optional
- optional, not held provide directions to guests optional
- optional, not held wash vehicles optional
- optional, not held ensure protection of car parking optional
- optional, not held greet guests optional
- optional, not held handle surveillance equipment optional
- optional, not held lift heavy weights optional
- optional, not held operate radio equipment optional
32 held skills the parking valet role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role analyse requirements for moving goods skill
- not needed by the target role animal transport regulations knowledge
- not needed by the target role animal transportation vehicles knowledge
- not needed by the target role apply techniques for stacking goods into containers skill
- not needed by the target role assemble goods skill
- not needed by the target role carry objects skill
- not needed by the target role determine cargo loading sequence skill
- not needed by the target role electricity knowledge
- not needed by the target role ensure vehicle operability skill
- not needed by the target role follow work procedures skill
- not needed by the target role handle delivery of furniture goods skill
- not needed by the target role hazards associated with loading dangerous goods knowledge
- not needed by the target role health and safety measures in transportation knowledge
- not needed by the target role load animals for transportation skill
- not needed by the target role load bulk trucks skill
- not needed by the target role maintain inventory of tools skill
- not needed by the target role manoeuvre heavy trucks skill
- not needed by the target role mechanics knowledge
- not needed by the target role operate GPS systems skill
- not needed by the target role organise weight of loads according to lifting equipment capacity skill
- not needed by the target role pack goods skill
- not needed by the target role perform cleaning duties skill
- not needed by the target role read maps skill
- not needed by the target role read pictograms skill
- not needed by the target role road transport legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role stack goods skill
- not needed by the target role store warehouse goods skill
- not needed by the target role use communication equipment skill
- not needed by the target role use equipment for safe stowage skill
- not needed by the target role use packaging equipment skill
- not needed by the target role use traditional toolbox tools skill
- not needed by the target role vehicle cargo capacity knowledge
1 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 company policies required
Other moves recorded from moving truck driver
- mover 69% covered · moderate
- move coordinator 46% covered · moderate
- cargo vehicle driver 40% covered · substantial
- dangerous goods driver 39% covered · substantial
- private chauffeur 34% covered · substantial
- bus driver 30% covered · substantial
- trolley bus driver 30% covered · substantial
- bicycle courier 28% covered · substantial
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.