Where a bartender can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a bartender already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Bartenders serve alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks as requested by clients in a hospitality service bar outlet.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 74%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 1difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 38required or supplementary
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- barista 45% covered · difficulty 56.3
- quick service restaurant crew member 38% covered · difficulty 61.6
- sommelier 33% covered · difficulty 63.6
- waiter/waitress 30% covered · difficulty 76.2
- hotel concierge 27% covered · difficulty 65.3
- quick service restaurant team leader 24% covered · difficulty 71.8
- night auditor 24% covered · difficulty 67.9
- hospitality establishment receptionist 22% covered · difficulty 76.3
- head sommelier 21% covered · difficulty 78.4
- venue director 20% covered · difficulty 80.8
- head waiter/head waitress 16% covered · difficulty 86.6
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bartender is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a bartender already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.