Cannabis Transferable Skills Assessment Tool

The Cannabis Transferable Skills Assessment Tool is designed to help you discover how your existing skills and knowledge can be applied to expected roles in the cannabis industry. Your transferable skills come from prior work, training, education, hobbies, and other experiences.

To learn about various ancillary and support positions that do not involve directly working with cannabis plants or products visit Ancillary Jobs on DOL's Cannabis Career Exploration page.   

The skills, jobs, and descriptions in this tool were sourced from national job boards and cannabis markets within and outside of New York State and do not represent the policies of the NYS Office of Cannabis Management or NYS Department of Labor.

Learn how to use the cannabis transferable skills assessment tool or view instructions below. 

The tool above can be used to explore information in several ways and provides examples of relevant expected cannabis positions by:

• Job Title: Template job title for expected jobs with cannabis businesses.            
• Business Type: Type of business for each job title.
• License Type: Cannabis license or permit required for businesses that may employ each job title.
• Job Summary: Summary of each expected cannabis job.
• Job Skill Level: Potential skill level required to obtain each expected job.
• Template Job Description: Link to a full job description for each expected job title.
• Related ONET Titles: ONET titles with related skills, knowledge, and experience requirements.

CONDUCT A SEARCH using the four selection boxes at the top of the tool.

1. Select a Skill to choose skills or knowledge you have developed during prior work.
2. Select Interests to identify areas of general work interest.
   • Conventional: jobs that involve working with data, clerical tasks, numerical ability, carrying things out in detail, or following instructions.
   • Enterprising: jobs where you work with people to influence, perform, persuade, or lead for organizational goals or economic gain.
   • Investigative: jobs that involve observing, learning, investigation, analyzing, evaluating, or solving problems.
   • Realistic: jobs that involve athletic or mechanical ability working with objects, machines, tools, plants, or animals, or being outdoors.
   • Social: jobs that involve working to inform, help, train, enlighten, develop, or cure, or involve being skilled with words.
3. Select Job Skill Level to narrow down results based on a desired position level with cannabis companies.
   • Entry Level positions may not require prior cannabis work experience, training, or education.
   • Experienced positions may require 1 to 3 years cannabis work experience, training, or education.
   • Highly Skilled positions may require 2 to 6 years cannabis work experience, training, or education.
4. Select Business Type(s) that you would like to explore: Agriculture, Delivery & Distribution, Product Manufacturing, Retail & Hospitality, and/or Testing & Sampling

EXPORT RESULTS TO EXCEL using the Export Results to Excel button.

1. Select a sheet to choose which information to export.
   • Jobs Matching Selected Skills and Interests will export a table displaying all the information viewable on the tool, based on your search.
   • Summary of User Selections will export the selections you have chosen in the selection boxes at the top of the tool.
2. Select Format to choose whether to export information in Excel or Comma Separated Value format.
3. Click Download
4. Find the downloaded file to open it in the desired program.

To learn more about how to use Tableau and download data, check out our guide Tableau Tips for the Web.

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