Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

ticket sales agenttodoorman/doorwoman

A ticket sales agent already meets 35% of what the doorman/doorwoman role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.

From ticket sales agent
35%
Overlap1
To doorman/doorwoman
4 Skills carried over
4 Required, not held
51.2 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

35%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

51.2/ 100

1 Share of the doorman/doorwoman role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the ticket sales agent 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

Why this move works

A doorman/doorwoman role treats 3 of its required skills as things a ticket sales agent already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • assist clients with special needs
  • comply with food safety and hygiene
  • maintain customer service

What stands in the way is 4 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 4 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A doorman/doorwoman role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a ticket sales agent background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held provide tourism related information assisting and caring
  • already held assist clients with special needs communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held comply with food safety and hygiene assisting and caring
  • already held maintain customer service communication, collaboration and creativity

All 4 carried skills, including the 3 the doorman/doorwoman role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 10 missing skills fall into 5 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 assisting and caring 3 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held detect drug abuse required
  • required, not held greet guests required
  • required, not held screen clients required
  • optional, not held provide door security optional
  • optional, not held run errands on behalf of customers optional
02 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 required
  • required, not held park guest's vehicle required
03 handling and moving 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held handle guest luggage optional
  • optional, not held handle delivered packages optional
04 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held handle customer complaints optional
05 information skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held ensure hotel security optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a doorman/doorwoman 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

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 4 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held assist clients with special needs skill
  • already held comply with food safety and hygiene skill
  • already held maintain customer service skill
  • already held provide tourism related information skill
6 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held ensure hotel security optional
  • optional, not held handle guest luggage optional
  • optional, not held handle customer complaints optional
  • optional, not held handle delivered packages optional
  • optional, not held provide door security optional
  • optional, not held run errands on behalf of customers optional
18 held skills the doorman/doorwoman role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role apply foreign languages in tourism skill
  • not needed by the target role assist customers with self-service ticketing machines skill
  • not needed by the target role cancellation policies of service providers knowledge
  • not needed by the target role communicate with customers skill
  • not needed by the target role handle personal identifiable information skill
  • not needed by the target role have computer literacy skill
  • not needed by the target role inform customers of activity changes skill
  • not needed by the target role keep up to date on local events skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain customer records skill
  • not needed by the target role process booking skill
  • not needed by the target role process payments skill
  • not needed by the target role quote prices skill
  • not needed by the target role respond to customers' inquiries skill
  • not needed by the target role sell tickets skill
  • not needed by the target role speak different languages skill
  • not needed by the target role stay up-to-date with current events skill
  • not needed by the target role upsell products skill
  • not needed by the target role use global distribution system skill
Index
Note

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.