Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a personal shopper can go next

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

Personal shoppers assist their individual clients in selecting and buying clothing items and other goods such as gifts, according to their personal tastes, desires and style.

Also known as international personal shopper, global personal shopper, online personal shopper.

Service and sales workers 30 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: personal stylist, 82%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
personal stylist 82% covered dating service consultant 32% covered hairdresser 29% covered life coach 28% covered door to door seller 27% covered personal shopper You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from personal shopper, 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 personal shopper 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 personal shopper needs 13 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
  • advise customers on clothing accessories communication, collaboration and creativity
  • advise on clothing style communication, collaboration and creativity
  • accompany people assisting and caring
  • trends in fashion arts and humanities
  • satisfy customers communication, collaboration and creativity
  • apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods information skills
  • implement customer follow-up communication, collaboration and creativity
  • assist customers assisting and caring
  • maintain customer service communication, collaboration and creativity
  • listen actively communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Personal shopper 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 personal shopper’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.