Where a waiter/waitress can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a waiter/waitress already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Waiters/waitresses supply guests with food and drinks as requested. Waiters/waitresses usually work in restaurants, bars and hotels. This involves the preparation of tables, serving food or beverages and taking payments.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 72%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 4difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 43required or supplementary
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- barista 40% covered · difficulty 59.7
- club host/club hostess 40% covered · difficulty 55.5
- bartender 38% covered · difficulty 67.2
- hotel butler 36% covered · difficulty 57.4
- head waiter/head waitress 35% covered · difficulty 72.1
- night auditor 35% covered · difficulty 59.5
- domestic butler 34% covered · difficulty 65.4
- hospitality establishment receptionist 30% covered · difficulty 71
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waiter/waitress 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 waiter/waitress 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.