Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a flight attendant can go next

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

Flight attendants perform a variety of personal services conducive to the safety and comfort of airline passengers during flight. They greet passengers, verify tickets, and direct passengers to assigned seats. They prepare reports after landing describing how the flight went in terms of operations, procedures, and anomalies.

Service and sales workers 40 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: steward/stewardess, 63%

steward/stewardess 63% covered ship steward/ship stewardess 54% covered train attendant 47% covered hotel butler 46% covered hotel concierge 43% covered flight attendant You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from flight attendant. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a flight attendant already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Index

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

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a flight attendant already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.