From traditional chinese medicine therapist to shiatsu practitioner
14 of the 22 essential skills of a shiatsu practitioner are already essential for a traditional chinese medicine therapist — about 64% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 14
- skills carry over
- 8
- would be new
- 64%
- of the target job covered
- 22
- essential skills of a shiatsu practitioner
What a shiatsu practitioner does
Shiatsu practitioners provide health maintenance, health education, whole health evaluation and recommendations for wellbeing, and treatment of certain illness through energetic evaluation of the body's life energy system (Ki) and regulation of the life energy system through various energetic and manual techniques.
What carries over
14 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply context specific clinical competences
- develop therapeutic relationships
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow-up on healthcare users' treatment
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- identify customer's needs
- listen actively
- maintain work area cleanliness
- observe healthcare users
- pathologies treated by acupuncture
- promote mental health
- traditional Chinese medicine
What would be new
8 skillsEssential for a shiatsu practitioner and not for a traditional chinese medicine therapist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from traditional chinese medicine therapist
2 roles- acupuncturist14 skills in common
- herbal therapist13 skills in common
← traditional chinese medicine therapistshiatsu practitioner →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a shiatsu practitioner?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.