RecordOccupation

Where a shop assistant can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a shop assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Shop assistants work in shops where they perform assistance duties. The help shopkeepers in their daily work such as ordering and refilling of goods and stock, providing general advice to customers, selling products and maintaining the shop.

Highest coverage recorded: 59%
Destinations: 5each with a full record
Within reach: 1difficulty under 55
Skills on file: 35required or supplementary

Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

sales assistant 59% covered · difficulty 50.2

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Index

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shop assistant is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a shop assistant 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.