Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a cashier can go next

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

Cashiers operate the cash register, receive payments from customers, issue receipts and return change due.

Also known as check out assistant, check out operator, hypermarket cashier, department store cashier, outlet centre cashier, shop cashier, supermarket cashier, filling station cashier, checkout assistant, check out operative, checkout operative, checkout operator.

Service and sales workers 25 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: shop assistant, 32%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
shop assistant 32% covered checkout supervisor 30% covered post office counter clerk 26% covered press and stationery speciali… 24% covered second-hand goods specialised… 23% covered cashier You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from cashier, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a cashier already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A cashier needs 10 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • process refunds management skills
  • manage theft prevention assisting and caring
  • operate cash register management skills
  • process payments management skills
  • ensure client orientation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • apply numeracy skills information skills
  • issue sales invoices management skills
  • provide customer follow-up services assisting and caring
  • customer service business, administration and law
  • use different communication channels communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a cashier does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a cashier’s work. 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.