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

post office counter clerktobank teller

A post office counter clerk already meets 33% of what the bank teller role asks for. The move turns on 7 required skills not yet in the profile.

From post office counter clerk
33%
Overlap1
To bank teller
9 Skills carried over
7 Required, not held
66.5 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

33%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

66.5/ 100

1 Share of the bank teller role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the post office counter clerk 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 bank teller role treats 7 of its required skills as things a post office counter clerk already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • communicate with customers
  • convert currency
  • customer service
  • financial products
  • handle financial transactions
  • offer financial services

What stands in the way is 7 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 9 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A bank teller role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a post office counter clerk background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held convert currency management skills
  • already held offer financial services communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held financial markets business, administration and law
  • already held financial products business, administration and law
  • already held advise on financial matters communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held handle financial transactions management skills

All 9 carried skills, including the 7 the bank teller role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 32 missing skills fall into 11 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 information skills 4 required, 7 supplementary
  • required, not held maintain financial records required
  • required, not held maintain records of financial transactions required
  • required, not held produce statistical financial records required
  • required, not held trace financial transactions required
  • optional, not held archive documentation related to work optional
  • optional, not held create a financial report optional
  • optional, not held manage digital archives optional
  • optional, not held ensure proper document management optional
  • optional, not held maintain customer records optional
  • optional, not held obtain financial information optional
  • optional, not held prepare financial statements optional
02 business, administration and law 2 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held banking activities required
  • required, not held financial jurisdiction required
  • optional, not held foreign valuta optional
  • optional, not held accounting techniques optional
  • optional, not held securities optional
03 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held provide financial product information required
  • optional, not held order supplies optional
  • optional, not held protect client interests optional
04 management skills 4 supplementary
  • optional, not held manage bank vault optional
  • optional, not held attach accounting certificates to accounting transactions optional
  • optional, not held operate financial instruments optional
  • optional, not held perform clerical duties optional
05 assisting and caring 3 supplementary
  • optional, not held ensure safe transport of money optional
  • optional, not held manage vault access optional
  • optional, not held guarantee customer satisfaction optional
06 constructing 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held operate money-processing machine optional

5 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a bank teller 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 9 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held communicate with customers skill
  • already held convert currency skill
  • already held customer service knowledge
  • already held financial products knowledge
  • already held handle financial transactions skill
  • already held offer financial services skill
  • already held process payments skill
  • already held advise on financial matters skill
  • already held financial markets knowledge
The 5 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held electronic communication optional
08 information and communication technologies (icts) 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held core banking software optional
09 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held actuarial science optional
10 services 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held health and safety regulations optional
11 social sciences, journalism and information 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held economics optional
25 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held ensure safe transport of money optional
  • optional, not held manage bank vault optional
  • optional, not held manage vault access optional
  • optional, not held operate money-processing machine optional
  • optional, not held actuarial science optional
  • optional, not held archive documentation related to work optional
  • optional, not held core banking software optional
  • optional, not held create a financial report optional
  • optional, not held foreign valuta optional
  • optional, not held guarantee customer satisfaction optional
  • optional, not held manage digital archives optional
  • optional, not held accounting techniques optional
  • optional, not held attach accounting certificates to accounting transactions optional
  • optional, not held economics optional
  • optional, not held electronic communication optional
  • optional, not held ensure proper document management optional
  • optional, not held health and safety regulations optional
  • optional, not held maintain customer records optional
  • optional, not held obtain financial information optional
  • optional, not held operate financial instruments optional
  • optional, not held order supplies optional
  • optional, not held perform clerical duties optional
  • optional, not held prepare financial statements optional
  • optional, not held protect client interests optional
  • optional, not held securities optional
16 held skills the bank teller role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role assist customers skill
  • not needed by the target role carry out active selling skill
  • not needed by the target role characteristics of products knowledge
  • not needed by the target role characteristics of services knowledge
  • not needed by the target role deliver correspondence skill
  • not needed by the target role distribute pensions skill
  • not needed by the target role handle registered mail skill
  • not needed by the target role issue sales invoices skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain store cleanliness skill
  • not needed by the target role operate cash register skill
  • not needed by the target role promote financial products skill
  • not needed by the target role register mail skill
  • not needed by the target role sales argumentation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role satisfy customers skill
  • not needed by the target role sell post office products skill
  • not needed by the target role types of pensions knowledge
10 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 banking activities required
  • required, not held financial jurisdiction required
  • optional, not held actuarial science optional
  • optional, not held core banking software optional
  • optional, not held foreign valuta optional
  • optional, not held accounting techniques optional
  • optional, not held economics optional
  • optional, not held electronic communication optional
  • optional, not held health and safety regulations optional
  • optional, not held securities optional
Index

Other moves recorded from post office counter clerk

Full index of moves from post office counter clerk

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.