Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a shop assistant can go next

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

Shop assistants work in shops where they perform assistance duties. The help shopkeepers in their daily work such as ordering and refilling of goods and stock, providing general advice to customers, selling products and maintaining the shop.

Also known as garden centre shop assistant, filling station shop assistant, senior shop assistant, hypermarket shop assistant, outlet centre shop assistant, museum shop assistant, outlet centre shop worker, trainee shop worker, department store shop assistant, hypermarket shop worker, trainee shop assistant, department store shop worker.

Service and sales workers 35 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: sales assistant, 59%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
sales assistant 59% covered press and stationery speciali… 51% covered second-hand goods specialised… 49% covered medical goods specialised sel… 48% covered delicatessen specialised sell… 48% covered shop assistant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from shop 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 shop assistant 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 shop assistant needs 22 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
  • Order products management skills
  • direct customers to merchandise communication, collaboration and creativity
  • pack merchandise for gifts handling and moving
  • put up price tags handling and moving
  • notify customers on special offers assisting and caring
  • package purchases in bags handling and moving
  • carry out order intake communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide customer guidance on product selection communication, collaboration and creativity
  • process refunds management skills
  • stock shelves handling and moving
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Shop assistant 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 shop 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.