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

waiter/waitresstohotel butler

A waiter/waitress already meets 36% of what the hotel butler role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.

From waiter/waitress
36%
Overlap1
To hotel butler
6 Skills carried over
6 Required, not held
57.4 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

36%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

57.4/ 100

1 Share of the hotel butler role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the waiter/waitress 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 hotel butler role treats 4 of its required skills as things a waiter/waitress already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • comply with food safety and hygiene
  • identify customer's needs
  • maintain customer service
  • maintain relationship with customers

What stands in the way is 6 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 6 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A hotel butler role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a waiter/waitress background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held serve beverages 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
  • already held maintain relationship with customers communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held identify customer's needs communication, collaboration and creativity

All 6 carried skills, including the 4 the hotel butler role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 13 missing skills fall into 4 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 4 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held assist at check-in required
  • required, not held explain features in accommodation venue required
  • required, not held greet guests required
  • required, not held run errands on behalf of customers required
  • optional, not held provide tourism related information optional
  • optional, not held ensure the privacy of guests optional
02 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held handle customer complaints required
  • optional, not held implement sales strategies optional
  • optional, not held take room service orders optional
  • optional, not held implement marketing strategies optional
03 handling and moving 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held handle guest luggage required
  • optional, not held handle delivered packages optional
04 management skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held oversee guest laundry service optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a hotel butler 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 6 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held comply with food safety and hygiene skill
  • already held identify customer's needs skill
  • already held maintain customer service skill
  • already held maintain relationship with customers skill
  • already held assist clients with special needs skill
  • already held serve beverages skill
7 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held implement sales strategies optional
  • optional, not held oversee guest laundry service optional
  • optional, not held provide tourism related information optional
  • optional, not held take room service orders optional
  • optional, not held ensure the privacy of guests optional
  • optional, not held handle delivered packages optional
  • optional, not held implement marketing strategies optional
37 held skills the hotel butler role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role advise guests on menus for special events skill
  • not needed by the target role alcoholic beverage products knowledge
  • not needed by the target role apply foreign languages in hospitality skill
  • not needed by the target role arrange tables skill
  • not needed by the target role assist VIP guests skill
  • not needed by the target role assist customers skill
  • not needed by the target role attend to detail regarding food and beverages skill
  • not needed by the target role check dining room cleanliness skill
  • not needed by the target role clean surfaces skill
  • not needed by the target role decant wines skill
  • not needed by the target role detect drug abuse skill
  • not needed by the target role dietary regimes knowledge
  • not needed by the target role educate customers on coffee varieties skill
  • not needed by the target role educate customers on tea varieties skill
  • not needed by the target role food and beverages on the menu knowledge
  • not needed by the target role laws regulating serving alcoholic drinks knowledge
  • not needed by the target role local area tourism industry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role maintain incident reporting records skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain personal hygiene standards skill
  • not needed by the target role measure customer feedback skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare alcoholic beverages skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare flambeed dishes skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare hot drinks skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare service trolleys skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare the restaurant for service skill
  • not needed by the target role present menus skill
  • not needed by the target role process payments skill
  • not needed by the target role process reservations skill
  • not needed by the target role recommend wines skill
  • not needed by the target role serve food in table service skill
  • not needed by the target role serve wines skill
  • not needed by the target role sparkling wines knowledge
  • not needed by the target role supervise food quality skill
  • not needed by the target role take food and beverage orders from customers skill
  • not needed by the target role use food cutting tools skill
  • not needed by the target role welcome restaurant guests skill
  • not needed by the target role work in a hospitality team skill
Index

Other moves recorded from waiter/waitress

Full index of moves from waiter/waitress

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.