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

shipping agenttointernational forwarding operations coordinator

A shipping agent already meets 32% of what the international forwarding operations coordinator role asks for. The move turns on 11 required skills not yet in the profile.

From shipping agent
32%
Overlap1
To international forwarding operations coordinator
6 Skills carried over
11 Required, not held
65.1 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

32%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

65.1/ 100

1 Share of the international forwarding operations coordinator role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the shipping agent 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 international forwarding operations coordinator role treats 6 of its required skills as things a shipping agent already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • apply procedures to ensure cargo complies with customs regulations
  • control trade commercial documentation
  • coordinate export transportation activities
  • coordinate import transportation activities
  • liaise with transportation services
  • manage import export licenses

What stands in the way is 11 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 6 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A international forwarding operations coordinator role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a shipping agent background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held liaise with transportation services communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held manage import export licenses information skills
  • already held apply procedures to ensure cargo complies with customs regulations assisting and caring
  • already held coordinate export transportation activities management skills
  • already held coordinate import transportation activities management skills
  • already held control trade commercial documentation assisting and caring

All 6 carried skills, including the 6 the international forwarding operations coordinator role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 16 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 communication, collaboration and creativity 4 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held foster relationships with various types of carrier required
  • required, not held work in a logistics team required
  • required, not held write routine reports required
  • required, not held write work-related reports required
  • optional, not held perform services in a flexible manner optional
  • optional, not held show intercultural awareness optional
  • optional, not held use different communication channels optional
02 management skills 3 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held assess carriers required
  • required, not held manage carriers required
  • required, not held set import export strategies required
  • optional, not held tolerate stress optional
03 working with computers 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held perform ICT troubleshooting required
  • optional, not held have computer literacy optional
04 assisting and caring 1 required
  • required, not held respond to requests for logistics services from all over the world required
05 business, administration and law 1 required
  • required, not held international business required
06 information skills 1 required
  • required, not held analyse work-related written reports required
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a international forwarding operations coordinator 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 6 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held apply procedures to ensure cargo complies with customs regulations skill
  • already held control trade commercial documentation skill
  • already held coordinate export transportation activities skill
  • already held coordinate import transportation activities skill
  • already held liaise with transportation services skill
  • already held manage import export licenses skill
5 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held tolerate stress optional
  • optional, not held have computer literacy optional
  • optional, not held perform services in a flexible manner optional
  • optional, not held show intercultural awareness optional
  • optional, not held use different communication channels optional
19 held skills the international forwarding operations coordinator role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role administer multi-modal logistics skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse shipping rates skill
  • not needed by the target role book cargo skill
  • not needed by the target role comply with regulations related to export in different countries skill
  • not needed by the target role create import-export commercial documentation skill
  • not needed by the target role ensure compliance with port regulations skill
  • not needed by the target role handle shipment paperwork skill
  • not needed by the target role inspect freight skill
  • not needed by the target role international import export regulations knowledge
  • not needed by the target role keep up-to-date to current customs regulations skill
  • not needed by the target role keep written records of cargo skill
  • not needed by the target role liaise with port users skill
  • not needed by the target role make bids in forward auctions skill
  • not needed by the target role observe freight shipment loaders skill
  • not needed by the target role oversee arrival and departure of ships into port skill
  • not needed by the target role port regulation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role prepare bills of lading skill
  • not needed by the target role provide advice to clients in terms of export restrictions skill
  • not needed by the target role provide advice to clients in terms of import restrictions skill
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 international business required
Index

Other moves recorded from shipping agent

Full index of moves from shipping agent

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.