Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a host/hostess can go next

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

Hosts/hostesses welcome and inform visitors at airports, train stations, hotels, exhibitions fairs, and function events and/or attend to passengers in the mean of transport.

Also known as hostess, host, airport host, airport hostess, airport host/hostess.

Clerical support workers 26 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: hotel concierge, 55%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
hotel concierge 55% covered hotel butler 51% covered hotel porter 45% covered doorman/doorwoman 43% covered camping ground operative 35% covered host/hostess You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from host/hostess, 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 host/hostess 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 host/hostess needs 17 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
  • inform tourist groups on logistical times communication, collaboration and creativity
  • escort visitors to places of interest assisting and caring
  • manage tourist groups assisting and caring
  • provide visitor information assisting and caring
  • welcome tour groups assisting and caring
  • answer incoming calls assisting and caring
  • demonstrate intercultural competences in hospitality services communication, collaboration and creativity
  • promote the use of sustainable transport communication, collaboration and creativity
  • handle personal identifiable information assisting and caring
  • distribute local information materials communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Host/hostess is filed under Clerical support workers, ISCO major group 4. 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 host/hostess’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.