university department headtosecondary school department head
A university department head already meets 75% of what the secondary school department head role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.
75%
32.4/ 100
1 Share of the secondary school department head role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the university department head 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 secondary school department head role treats 16 of its required skills as things a university department head already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- advise on teaching methods
- assess employees' capability levels
- assessment processes
- assist in the organisation of school events
- cooperate with education professionals
- curriculum objectives
What stands in the way is 6 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 34 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A secondary school department head role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a university department head background worth leading with.
- already held provide education management support management skills
- already held provide feedback to teachers communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held promote education programmes communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held advise on teaching methods communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held assess employees' capability levels management skills
- already held maintain contract administration information skills
All 34 carried skills, including the 16 the secondary school department head role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 10 missing skills fall into 4 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 manage secondary school department required
- required, not held assess the development of youth required
- optional, not held develop course outline optional
- required, not held instructional strategies required
- required, not held learning technologies required
- required, not held liaise with educational staff required
- optional, not held teach secondary education class content optional
- optional, not held arrange parent teacher meeting optional
- optional, not held maintain relations with children's parents optional
- required, not held secondary school procedures required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a secondary school department head role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 manage secondary school department skill · occupation specific
- 02 assess the development of youth skill · sector specific
- 03 instructional strategies knowledge · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 34 skills that carry over
- already held advise on teaching methods skill
- already held assess employees' capability levels skill
- already held assessment processes knowledge
- already held assist in the organisation of school events skill
- already held cooperate with education professionals skill
- already held curriculum objectives knowledge
- already held curriculum standards knowledge
- already held guarantee students' safety skill
- already held identify process improvements skill
- already held lead inspections skill
- already held present reports skill
- already held project management knowledge
- already held provide education management support skill
- already held provide feedback to teachers skill
- already held use office systems skill
- already held write work-related reports skill
- already held adolescent socialisation behaviour knowledge
- already held advise on lesson plans skill
- already held create a financial report skill
- already held develop organisational policies skill
- already held develop professional network skill
- already held escort students on a field trip skill
- already held evaluate education programmes skill
- already held funding methods knowledge
- already held identify education needs skill
- already held learning difficulties knowledge
- already held maintain contract administration skill
- already held manage budgets skill
- already held monitor educational developments skill
- already held plan shifts of employees skill
- already held prepare youths for adulthood skill
- already held promote education programmes skill
- already held recruit employees skill
- already held work with virtual learning environments skill
4 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held teach secondary education class content optional
- optional, not held arrange parent teacher meeting optional
- optional, not held develop course outline optional
- optional, not held maintain relations with children's parents optional
7 held skills the secondary school department head role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role assess students skill
- not needed by the target role education administration knowledge
- not needed by the target role human resource management knowledge
- not needed by the target role manage university department skill
- not needed by the target role provide information on study programmes skill
- not needed by the target role represent the organisation skill
- not needed by the target role university procedures knowledge
3 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held instructional strategies required
- required, not held learning technologies required
- required, not held secondary school procedures required
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.