Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a kitchen assistant can go next

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

Kitchen assistants assist in the preparation of food and cleaning of the kitchen area.

Also known as kitchen worker, catering assistant, kitchen trainee, catering trainee, spare hand, roundsman, kitchen boy.

Elementary occupations 31 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: kitchen porter, 78%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
kitchen porter 78% covered grill cook 62% covered fish cook 55% covered pizzaiolo 52% covered diet cook 51% covered kitchen assistant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from kitchen assistant, 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 kitchen assistant 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 kitchen assistant needs 20 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
  • monitor kitchen supplies management skills
  • clean kitchen equipment handling and moving
  • comply with standard portion sizes assisting and caring
  • carry out stock rotation handling and moving
  • receive kitchen supplies management skills
  • store kitchen supplies handling and moving
  • handover the food preparation area handling and moving
  • ensure cleanliness of food preparation area information skills
  • design indicators for food waste reduction information skills
  • work according to recipe communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Kitchen assistant 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 kitchen assistant’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.