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

social security administratortosocial service consultant

A social security administrator already meets 47% of what the social service consultant role asks for. The move turns on 8 required skills not yet in the profile.

From social security administrator
47%
Overlap1
To social service consultant
14 Skills carried over
8 Required, not held
50.4 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

47%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

50.4/ 100

1 Share of the social service consultant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the social security administrator 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 social service consultant role treats 6 of its required skills as things a social security administrator already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • advise on legislative acts
  • government policy implementation
  • liaise with local authorities
  • maintain relations with local representatives
  • maintain relationships with government agencies
  • provide improvement strategies

What stands in the way is 8 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 14 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A social service consultant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a social security administrator background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held promote social awareness communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held provide improvement strategies management skills
  • already held analyse community needs communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held build community relations communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held maintain relations with local representatives communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held advise on legislative acts communication, collaboration and creativity

All 14 carried skills, including the 6 the social service consultant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 13 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, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held advise on provision of social services required
  • required, not held communicate with social service users required
  • required, not held influence policy makers on social service issues required
  • required, not held report on social development required
  • optional, not held make legislation transparent for users of social services optional
  • optional, not held implement strategic planning optional
02 information skills 2 required
  • required, not held evaluate social work program's impact required
  • required, not held monitor regulations in social services required
03 business, administration and law 1 required
  • required, not held legal requirements in the social sector required
04 social sciences, journalism and information 1 required
  • required, not held social justice required
05 management skills 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held assess social service users' situation optional
  • optional, not held plan social service process optional
06 assisting and caring 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held promote inclusion optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a social service consultant 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 14 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held advise on legislative acts skill
  • already held government policy implementation knowledge
  • already held liaise with local authorities skill
  • already held maintain relations with local representatives skill
  • already held maintain relationships with government agencies skill
  • already held provide improvement strategies skill
  • already held analyse community needs skill
  • already held build community relations skill
  • already held create solutions to problems skill
  • already held manage government policy implementation skill
  • already held present reports skill
  • already held promote social awareness skill
  • already held promote social change skill
  • already held work within communities skill
5 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held assess social service users' situation optional
  • optional, not held make legislation transparent for users of social services optional
  • optional, not held implement strategic planning optional
  • optional, not held plan social service process optional
  • optional, not held promote inclusion optional
13 held skills the social service consultant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role develop social security programmes skill
  • not needed by the target role employment law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ensure information transparency skill
  • not needed by the target role establish collaborative relations skill
  • not needed by the target role government social security programmes knowledge
  • not needed by the target role legal research knowledge
  • not needed by the target role manage accounts skill
  • not needed by the target role manage staff skill
  • not needed by the target role oversee quality control skill
  • not needed by the target role promote social security programmes skill
  • not needed by the target role public housing legislation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role show intercultural awareness skill
  • not needed by the target role social security law knowledge
2 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 legal requirements in the social sector required
  • required, not held social justice required
Index

Other moves recorded from social security administrator

Full index of moves from social security administrator

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.