Career switch, measured
From Postsecondary Education Administrator to Engineering Manager
Yes, it's a close move. Measured across current postings, the two roles have 54% skill overlap. Skills that carry over include Leadership, Training and coaching, Budgeting, Communication; the main skills to add are AWS, CI/CD, LLMs, Kubernetes.
54%
skill overlap
1,177
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Skills that carry over
Share of each role’s postings that ask for the skill.
SkillPostsecondary Education AdministratorEngineering Manager
- Leadership79%73%
- Training and coaching40%57%
- Budgeting19%24%
- Communication30%27%
- Process improvement14%18%
- Project management14%11%
- Stakeholder management14%31%
- Research28%12%
Skills to add
Asked for often in Engineering Manager postings, rarely in Postsecondary Education Administrator ones.
SkillPostsecondary Education AdministratorEngineering Manager
- AWS–19%
- CI/CD–15%
- LLMs–15%
- Kubernetes–14%
- Python–13%
- UX design–12%
- Manufacturing–12%
- Agile–11%
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