Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a tanning consultant can go next

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

Tanning consultants assist clients with their tanning needs. They offer advice on purchases and treatments in solariums and tanning salons.

Also known as sun parlor worker, tanning salon attendant, sun parlour attendant, sun parlor attendant, solarium attendant, solarium worker, tan specialist, tanning salon operator, tanning salon manager, tanning salon worker, tan consultant, solarium consultant.

Service and sales workers 29 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: beauty salon attendant, 51%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
beauty salon attendant 51% covered hair removal technician 40% covered aesthetician 37% covered manicurist 34% covered pedicurist 30% covered tanning consultant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from tanning consultant, 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 tanning consultant 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 tanning consultant needs 8 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • advise on tanning treatments communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain personal hygiene standards management skills
  • ensure sanitation handling and moving
  • apply company policies assisting and caring
  • customer service business, administration and law
  • maintain equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • maintain customer service communication, collaboration and creativity
  • identify customer's needs communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Tanning consultant 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 tanning consultant’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.