Where a door supervisor can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a door supervisor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Door supervisors ensure that the people entering public places such as bars, restaurants and concert venues are suitable and that they do not represent potential problems. They enforce legal regulations by checking individuals' legal age to enter a bar, manage crowds and emergencies, monitor dress codes and handle aggressive and abusive behaviours.
Also known as bouncer, disco doorman, nightclub doorman, bar doorman.
Service and sales workers 36 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: crowd controller, 66%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A door supervisor needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- monitor guest access assisting and caring
- perform security checks assisting and caring
- screen clients assisting and caring
- control crowd assisting and caring
- check tickets at venue entry assisting and caring
- illegal substances services
- comply with the principles of self-defence assisting and caring
- deal with aggressive behaviour assisting and caring
- detain offenders assisting and caring
- restrain individuals assisting and caring
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a door supervisor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- crowd controller 74% covered · difficulty 27.9
- security guard 66% covered · difficulty 35.6
- gate guard 59% covered · difficulty 42.6
- hand luggage inspector 55% covered · difficulty 45.5
- bodyguard 54% covered · difficulty 47.3
- life guard 44% covered · difficulty 55.9
- police officer 39% covered · difficulty 59.7
- lifeguard instructor 37% covered · difficulty 62
- store detective 37% covered · difficulty 62
- usher 34% covered · difficulty 64.2
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Door supervisor is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a door supervisor’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.