hotel conciergetohotel porter
A hotel concierge already meets 61% of what the hotel porter role asks for. The move turns on 2 required skills not yet in the profile.
61%
32.9/ 100
1 Share of the hotel porter role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the hotel concierge profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A hotel porter role treats 4 of its required skills as things a hotel concierge already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- assist clients with special needs
- comply with food safety and hygiene
- greet guests
- maintain customer service
What stands in the way is 2 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 11 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A hotel porter role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a hotel concierge background worth leading with.
- already held take room service orders communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held detect drug abuse assisting and caring
- already held assist at check-in assisting and caring
- already held provide tourism related information assisting and caring
- already held assist clients with special needs communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held greet guests assisting and caring
All 11 carried skills, including the 4 the hotel porter role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 8 missing skills fall into 3 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held handle guest luggage required
- required, not held handle delivered packages required
- optional, not held clean public areas optional
- optional, not held handle chemical cleaning agents optional
- optional, not held explain features in accommodation venue optional
- optional, not held provide door security optional
- optional, not held run errands on behalf of customers optional
- optional, not held park guest's vehicle optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 2 entries a hotel porter role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 11 skills that carry over
- already held assist clients with special needs skill
- already held comply with food safety and hygiene skill
- already held greet guests skill
- already held maintain customer service skill
- already held assist at check-in skill
- already held detect drug abuse skill
- already held handle customer complaints skill
- already held implement marketing strategies skill
- already held implement sales strategies skill
- already held provide tourism related information skill
- already held take room service orders skill
6 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held explain features in accommodation venue optional
- optional, not held clean public areas optional
- optional, not held handle chemical cleaning agents optional
- optional, not held park guest's vehicle optional
- optional, not held provide door security optional
- optional, not held run errands on behalf of customers optional
12 held skills the hotel porter role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role assess cleanliness of areas skill
- not needed by the target role deliver correspondence skill
- not needed by the target role distribute local information materials skill
- not needed by the target role ensure the privacy of guests skill
- not needed by the target role handle personal identifiable information skill
- not needed by the target role handover the service area skill
- not needed by the target role identify customer's needs skill
- not needed by the target role maintain incident reporting records skill
- not needed by the target role maintain reception area skill
- not needed by the target role maintain relationship with customers skill
- not needed by the target role process reservations skill
- not needed by the target role property management software knowledge
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.