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

sales support assistanttolegal administrative assistant

A sales support assistant already meets 16% of what the legal administrative assistant role asks for. The move turns on 9 required skills not yet in the profile.

From sales support assistant
16%
Overlap1
To legal administrative assistant
4 Skills carried over
9 Required, not held
75.3 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

16%

Learning distance A rebuild

75.3/ 100

1 Share of the legal administrative assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the sales support assistant 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 legal administrative assistant role treats 2 of its required skills as things a sales support assistant already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • perform clerical duties
  • perform office routine activities

What stands in the way is 9 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 4 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A legal administrative assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a sales support assistant background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held perform office routine activities management skills
  • already held perform clerical duties management skills
  • already held manage accounts management skills
  • already held issue sales invoices management skills

All 4 carried skills, including the 2 the legal administrative assistant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 25 missing skills fall into 6 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 business, administration and law 4 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held procedural law required
  • required, not held legal department processes required
  • required, not held private law required
  • required, not held legal terminology required
  • optional, not held civil law optional
  • optional, not held civil process order optional
  • optional, not held court procedures optional
  • optional, not held legal case management optional
  • optional, not held legal research optional
02 management skills 2 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held manage personnel agenda required
  • required, not held meet deadlines for preparing legal cases required
  • optional, not held brief court officials optional
  • optional, not held fix meetings optional
03 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held communicate by telephone required
  • optional, not held apply technical communication skills optional
  • optional, not held handle case evidence optional
  • optional, not held liaise with typists optional
  • optional, not held revise legal documents optional
04 information skills 1 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held compile legal documents required
  • optional, not held decode handwritten texts optional
  • optional, not held study court hearings optional
  • optional, not held translate keywords into full texts optional
05 assisting and caring 1 required
  • required, not held observe confidentiality required
06 working with computers 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held manage digital documents optional
  • optional, not held use word processing software optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a legal administrative assistant 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 4 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held perform clerical duties skill
  • already held perform office routine activities skill
  • already held issue sales invoices skill
  • already held manage accounts skill
16 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held apply technical communication skills optional
  • optional, not held brief court officials optional
  • optional, not held civil law optional
  • optional, not held civil process order optional
  • optional, not held court procedures optional
  • optional, not held decode handwritten texts optional
  • optional, not held fix meetings optional
  • optional, not held handle case evidence optional
  • optional, not held legal case management optional
  • optional, not held legal research optional
  • optional, not held liaise with typists optional
  • optional, not held manage digital documents optional
  • optional, not held revise legal documents optional
  • optional, not held study court hearings optional
  • optional, not held translate keywords into full texts optional
  • optional, not held use word processing software optional
19 held skills the legal administrative assistant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role analyse customer service surveys skill
  • not needed by the target role bookkeeping regulations knowledge
  • not needed by the target role carry out sales analysis skill
  • not needed by the target role check accounting records skill
  • not needed by the target role customer service knowledge
  • not needed by the target role draw up marketing and sales plan skill
  • not needed by the target role electronic business knowledge
  • not needed by the target role forecast sales over periods of time skill
  • not needed by the target role handle mail skill
  • not needed by the target role implement sales strategies skill
  • not needed by the target role keep records on sales skill
  • not needed by the target role order supplies skill
  • not needed by the target role perform business research skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare sales checks skill
  • not needed by the target role process refunds skill
  • not needed by the target role produce sales reports skill
  • not needed by the target role sales activities knowledge
  • not needed by the target role supervise sales activities skill
  • not needed by the target role use sales forecasting softwares skill
9 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 procedural law required
  • required, not held legal department processes required
  • required, not held private law required
  • required, not held legal terminology required
  • optional, not held civil law optional
  • optional, not held civil process order optional
  • optional, not held court procedures optional
  • optional, not held legal case management optional
  • optional, not held legal research optional
Index

Other moves recorded from sales support assistant

Full index of moves from sales support assistant

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.