Table 4 Comparison of the top 20 skills in electronic engineering.

From: How prevalent is the cross-disciplinary career transition? Evidence from a multi-dimensional comparative analysis

Skill within

Score

Skill outside

Score

maintenance technology

2.01

waterfall

2.06

industrial electrician experience

1.85

insurance sale

1.93

troubleshooting

1.73

business to business sale

1.80

high voltage

1.56

microservice

1.79

multimeter

1.54

deep learning

1.76

altium design software

1.50

c + +

1.76

schematic

1.53

selenium web driver

1.70

service technician experience

1.45

data science

1.68

low voltage

1.42

model view controller

1.66

robot programming

1.35

nosql

1.62

programmable logic controller

1.40

gitlab

1.62

blueprint reading

1.36

financial analysis

1.62

sensor

1.30

sql

1.61

mechanical knowledge

1.35

customer service

1.61

electrical wiring

1.26

data analytics

1.59

calibration

1.26

cold calling

1.59

ltspice software

1.21

database management

1.58

pneumatics

1.20

simple object access protocol

1.56

soldering

1.24

node.js

1.54

power supply design

1.19

go programming language

1.54