navy officertoarmed forces officer
A navy officer already meets 73% of what the armed forces officer role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.
73%
31.5/ 100
1 Share of the armed forces officer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the navy 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 this move works
A armed forces officer role treats 16 of its required skills as things a navy officer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- camouflage
- devise military tactics
- ensure compliance with types of weapons
- ensure public safety and security
- handle surveillance equipment
- identify security threats
What stands in the way is 4 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 23 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A armed forces officer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a navy officer background worth leading with.
- already held coordinate humanitarian aid missions communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held assess danger in risk areas information skills
- already held camouflage engineering, manufacturing and construction
- already held coordinate patrols management skills
- already held give battle commands communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held devise military tactics management skills
All 23 carried skills, including the 16 the armed forces officer role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 12 missing skills fall into 5 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 defend human rights required
- required, not held train military troops required
- optional, not held conduct military music services optional
- optional, not held instruct in military duties optional
- optional, not held write situation reports optional
- required, not held arrange equipment repairs required
- optional, not held supervise the maintenance of military equipment optional
- optional, not held ensure equipment availability optional
- required, not held operate radio equipment required
- optional, not held operate armoured fighting vehicles optional
- optional, not held use personal protection equipment optional
- optional, not held identify terrorism threats optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a armed forces officer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 arrange equipment repairs skill · sector specific
- 02 defend human rights skill · sector specific
- 03 operate radio equipment 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 23 skills that carry over
- already held camouflage knowledge
- already held devise military tactics skill
- already held ensure compliance with types of weapons skill
- already held ensure public safety and security skill
- already held handle surveillance equipment skill
- already held identify security threats skill
- already held lead military troops skill
- already held maintain operational communications skill
- already held manage troop deployment skill
- already held military code knowledge
- already held military combat techniques knowledge
- already held military drill knowledge
- already held military weaponry knowledge
- already held perform military operations skill
- already held surveillance methods knowledge
- already held use different communication channels skill
- already held assess danger in risk areas skill
- already held coordinate humanitarian aid missions skill
- already held coordinate patrols skill
- already held coordinate rescue missions skill
- already held geographic information systems knowledge
- already held give battle commands skill
- already held use geographic information systems skill
8 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held conduct military music services optional
- optional, not held instruct in military duties optional
- optional, not held supervise the maintenance of military equipment optional
- optional, not held ensure equipment availability optional
- optional, not held identify terrorism threats optional
- optional, not held operate armoured fighting vehicles optional
- optional, not held use personal protection equipment optional
- optional, not held write situation reports optional
10 held skills the armed forces officer role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role analyse ship operations skill
- not needed by the target role apply navy operation procedures skill
- not needed by the target role coordinate the ship crew skill
- not needed by the target role ensure vessel security skill
- not needed by the target role give instructions to staff skill
- not needed by the target role navy operations knowledge
- not needed by the target role patrol areas skill
- not needed by the target role perform search and rescue missions skill
- not needed by the target role provide humanitarian aid skill
- not needed by the target role train naval crew skill
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.