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Where a food service worker can go next

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

Food service workers prepare food and serve customers. They prepare simple dishes to be used in places that serve food, such as restaurants, cafeterias, hotels, hospitals and ensure that kitchen operations run smoothly and efficiently.

Also known as catering worker, kitchen assistant, airline food kitchen worker, airline catering assistant, airline catering worker, food services worker, food production assistant, airline food preparer.

Service and sales workers 16 skills on file 1 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: kitchen porter, 22%

Fig. 2 · Career map 1 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1

70% and above · short step
50 to 70% · real move
Below 50% · substantial retraining

The 1 nearest destinations from food service worker, 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 food service worker already covers. All 1 are listed in the tables below.

Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only one move is listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

kitchen porter 22% covered · difficulty 67.3

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A food service worker needs 12 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

clean kitchen equipment handling and moving
foodborne diseases health and welfare
maintain food specifications information skills
food authentication techniques engineering, manufacturing and construction
food allergies health and welfare
food preservation engineering, manufacturing and construction
store raw food materials handling and moving
food legislation engineering, manufacturing and construction
follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health handling and moving
comply with food safety and hygiene assisting and caring

Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

food grader 37% covered · difficulty 56.6

Index

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

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a food service worker’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.