Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a sommelier can go next

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

Sommeliers stock, prepare, advise on and serve wine and other alcoholic beverages.

Also known as wine manager, restaurant sommelier, wine waiter.

Service and sales workers 17 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: head sommelier, 59%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
head sommelier 59% covered restaurant host/restaurant ho… 19% covered quick service restaurant team… 19% covered waiter/waitress 19% covered room attendant 18% covered sommelier You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from sommelier, 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 sommelier 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 sommelier needs 16 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
  • check wine quality information skills
  • select glassware for serving assisting and caring
  • decant wines assisting and caring
  • recommend wines communication, collaboration and creativity
  • compile wine lists communication, collaboration and creativity
  • prepare alcoholic beverages assisting and caring
  • wine characteristics engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • organise wine cellar management skills
  • serve wines assisting and caring
  • sparkling wines engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Sommelier 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 sommelier’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.