Where a waiter/waitress can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a waiter/waitress already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Waiters/waitresses supply guests with food and drinks as requested. Waiters/waitresses usually work in restaurants, bars and hotels. This involves the preparation of tables, serving food or beverages and taking payments.
Also known as chef de rang, waitress, waiter, waiting staff, table waiter, wait staff, event server.
Service and sales workers 43 skills on file 12 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: restaurant host/restaurant hostess, 72%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- barista 40% covered · difficulty 59.7
- club host/club hostess 40% covered · difficulty 55.5
- bartender 38% covered · difficulty 67.2
- hotel butler 36% covered · difficulty 57.4
- head waiter/head waitress 35% covered · difficulty 72.1
- night auditor 35% covered · difficulty 59.5
- domestic butler 34% covered · difficulty 65.4
- hospitality establishment receptionist 30% covered · difficulty 71
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A waiter/waitress needs 29 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- food and beverages on the menu services
- prepare the restaurant for service assisting and caring
- welcome restaurant guests assisting and caring
- present menus communication, collaboration and creativity
- attend to detail regarding food and beverages handling and moving
- check dining room cleanliness information skills
- dietary regimes health and welfare
- prepare alcoholic beverages assisting and caring
- prepare hot drinks assisting and caring
- alcoholic beverage products engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a waiter/waitress does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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Waiter/waitress is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a waiter/waitress’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.