Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a street food vendor can go next

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

Street food vendors sell food preparations, dishes and products on organised outdoor or indoor market places, or on the streets. They prepare the food in their stalls. Street food vendors use sales techniques to recommend their products to passers-by.

Also known as street food seller, purveyor of street food, street food trader, food stall holder, street food business operator, stall holder, street food supplier, street market food vendor, street food caterer.

Service and sales workers 35 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: market vendor, 55%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
market vendor 55% covered hawker 38% covered private chef 33% covered door to door seller 31% covered post office counter clerk 22% covered street food vendor You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from street food 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 street food 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 street food vendor needs 15 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
  • food authentication techniques engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • use cooking techniques assisting and caring
  • consumer protection services
  • food legislation engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • execute chilling processes to food products working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • food storage engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • organise product display communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Street food vendor is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a street food 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.