Career Overlap Occupation record
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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.

Also known as air crew member, steward, cabin attendant, inflight service attendant, stewardess, cabin crew member, flight crew member, aircraft attendant.

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

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
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
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from flight attendant, 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 flight attendant already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A flight attendant needs 31 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
  • inspect cabin service equipment information skills
  • prepare flight reports information skills
  • carry out pre-flight duties management skills
  • sell souvenirs communication, collaboration and creativity
  • conduct full-scale emergency plan exercises management skills
  • deliver outstanding service assisting and caring
  • provide food and beverages assisting and caring
  • execute flight plans communication, collaboration and creativity
  • serve food in table service assisting and caring
  • deal with challenging work conditions assisting and caring
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a flight attendant’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.