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

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

Restaurant hosts/hostesses welcome customers to a hospitality service unit and provide initial services.

Also known as maître d'hôtel, front of house host, restaurant hostess, front of house hostess, restaurant host, meeter and greeter.

Service and sales workers 20 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: club host/club hostess, 50%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
club host/club hostess 50% covered waiter/waitress 42% covered hotel concierge 39% covered doorman/doorwoman 35% covered quick service restaurant crew… 34% covered restaurant host/restauran… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from restaurant host/restaurant 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 restaurant host/restaurant 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 restaurant host/restaurant hostess 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
  • seat customers according to the waiting list assisting and caring
  • accommodate special seating assisting and caring
  • welcome restaurant guests assisting and caring
  • present menus communication, collaboration and creativity
  • check dining room cleanliness information skills
  • arrange tables assisting and caring
  • assist VIP guests assisting and caring
  • assist guest departure assisting and caring
  • process reservations information skills
  • assist customers assisting and caring
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Restaurant host/restaurant hostess 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 restaurant host/restaurant 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.