Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a wine sommelier can go next

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

Wine sommeliers have general knowledge about wine, its production, service and wind with food pairing. They make use of this knowledge for the management of specialised wine cellars, publish wine lists and books or work in restaurants.

Service and sales workers 28 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: beer sommelier, 37%

beer sommelier 37% covered wine fermenter 36% covered coffee taster 31% covered vermouth manufacturer 29% covered botanicals specialist 28% covered wine sommelier You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from wine sommelier. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a wine sommelier already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

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wine 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

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a wine sommelier already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.