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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.

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

Fig. 2 — the 1 nearest destinations from food service worker. 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.

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

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

kitchen porter 22% covered · difficulty 67.3

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.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a food service worker 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.