Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a domestic butler can go next

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

Domestic butlers serve at official meals, monitor meal preparations and table setting and manage the household staff. They may also offer personal assistance in booking travel arrangements and restaurants, valeting and clothing care.

Also known as major-domo, butler, domestic house manager.

Service and sales workers 36 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: hotel butler, 34%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
hotel butler 34% covered companion 30% covered waiter/waitress 30% covered doorman/doorwoman 29% covered domestic housekeeper 28% covered domestic butler You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from domestic butler, 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 domestic butler 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 domestic butler needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • check dining room cleanliness information skills
  • arrange tables assisting and caring
  • organise wine cellar management skills
  • serve wines assisting and caring
  • oversee guest laundry service management skills
  • serve beverages assisting and caring
  • serve food in table service assisting and caring
  • maintain personal hygiene standards management skills
  • coach employees communication, collaboration and creativity
  • manage maintenance operations management skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Domestic butler 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 domestic butler’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.