Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a market vendor can go next

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

Market vendors sell products such as fruit, vegetables and household products on organised outdoor or indoor market places. They use sales techniques to recommend their goods to passersby.

Also known as market trader, costermonger, fruit market vendor, street market vendor, covered market vendor, barrow boy, flower market vendor, street market seller, vegetable market vendor, outdoor market vendor, fish market vendor, indoor market vendor.

Service and sales workers 43 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: hawker, 80%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
hawker 80% covered street food vendor 55% covered door to door seller 43% covered promotions demonstrator 36% covered clothing specialised seller 27% covered market vendor You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from market vendor, 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 market vendor 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 market vendor needs 11 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
  • arrange permit for market stall information skills
  • value-added tax law business, administration and law
  • adapt to different weather conditions communication, collaboration and creativity
  • consumer protection services
  • organise product display communication, collaboration and creativity
  • assist customers assisting and caring
  • maintain work area cleanliness handling and moving
  • operate cash register management skills
  • process payments management skills
  • guarantee customer satisfaction assisting and caring
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Market vendor is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. 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 market vendor’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.