Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a hawker can go next

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

Hawkers sell goods and services on established routes, street and market locations.

Also known as stall holder, market trader, street vendor, street seller, indoor market trader, stallholder, outdoor market trader, street trader, peddler, costermonger, market stall trader, licensed hawker.

Elementary occupations 56 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: door to door seller, 61%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
door to door seller 61% covered street food vendor 49% covered promotions demonstrator 45% covered cashier 31% covered clothing specialised seller 29% covered hawker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from hawker, 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 hawker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A hawker needs 19 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
  • ensure product preparation assisting and caring
  • unload supplies handling and moving
  • adapt to different weather conditions communication, collaboration and creativity
  • negotiate price communication, collaboration and creativity
  • consumer protection services
  • perform manual work autonomously handling and moving
  • upsell products communication, collaboration and creativity
  • organise product display communication, collaboration and creativity
  • assist customers assisting and caring
  • carry out active selling communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Hawker is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. 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 hawker’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.