Ground steward/ground stewardess to club host/club hostess
A ground steward/ground stewardess already meets 29% of what the club host/club hostess role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.
64.7/ 100
1 How much of what a club host/club hostess is expected to do is already part of a ground steward/ground stewardess’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the club host/club hostess role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A club host/club hostess role treats 5 of its required skills as things a ground steward/ground stewardess already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- assist VIP guests
- assist customers
- handle customer complaints
- maintain customer service
- maintain relationship with customers
What stands in the way is 6 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 5 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A club host/club hostess role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a ground steward/ground stewardess background worth leading with.
- already held assist VIP guests assisting and caring
- already held assist customers assisting and caring
- already held handle customer complaints communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held maintain customer service communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held maintain relationship with customers communication, collaboration and creativity
All 5 carried skills, including the 5 the club host/club hostess role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 23 missing skills fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn enforce regulations of selling alcoholic beverages to minors required
- still to learn assist guest departure required
- still to learn deal with aggressive behaviour required
- still to learn greet guests required
- still to learn monitor guest access required
- optional, not held assist at check-in optional
- optional, not held arrange tables optional
- optional, not held check tickets at venue entry optional
- optional, not held prepare alcoholic beverages optional
- optional, not held prepare mixed beverages optional
- optional, not held serve beverages optional
- optional, not held tend to guests with special needs optional
- optional, not held accommodate special seating optional
- optional, not held control crowd optional
- still to learn handle veterinary emergencies required
- optional, not held clean surfaces optional
- optional, not held advise guests on menus for special events optional
- optional, not held take food and beverage orders from customers optional
- optional, not held beverage products optional
- optional, not held alcoholic beverage products optional
- optional, not held devise special promotions optional
- optional, not held handle cash flow optional
- optional, not held process reservations optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a club host/club hostess role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 enforce regulations of selling alcoholic beverages to minors practise this
- 02 assist guest departure practise this
- 03 deal with aggressive behaviour practise this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 5 skills that carry over
- already held assist VIP guests skill
- already held assist customers skill
- already held handle customer complaints skill
- already held maintain customer service skill
- already held maintain relationship with customers skill
17 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held assist at check-in optional
- optional, not held advise guests on menus for special events optional
- optional, not held arrange tables optional
- optional, not held beverage products optional
- optional, not held check tickets at venue entry optional
- optional, not held prepare alcoholic beverages optional
- optional, not held prepare mixed beverages optional
- optional, not held serve beverages optional
- optional, not held take food and beverage orders from customers optional
- optional, not held tend to guests with special needs optional
- optional, not held accommodate special seating optional
- optional, not held alcoholic beverage products optional
- optional, not held clean surfaces optional
- optional, not held control crowd optional
- optional, not held devise special promotions optional
- optional, not held handle cash flow optional
- optional, not held process reservations optional
19 held skills the club host/club hostess role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role air passenger behaviour knowledge
- not needed by the target role air transport law knowledge
- not needed by the target role assist clients with special needs skill
- not needed by the target role assist passengers skill
- not needed by the target role board aircraft passengers skill
- not needed by the target role check in luggage skill
- not needed by the target role check in passengers skill
- not needed by the target role communicate by telephone skill
- not needed by the target role communicate with customers skill
- not needed by the target role conduct airport security screening skill
- not needed by the target role conduct security screenings skill
- not needed by the target role customer service knowledge
- not needed by the target role ensure flights run to schedule skill
- not needed by the target role guarantee customer satisfaction skill
- not needed by the target role manage the customer experience skill
- not needed by the target role process booking skill
- not needed by the target role sell tickets skill
- not needed by the target role tolerate stress skill
- not needed by the target role upsell products skill
2 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- optional, not held beverage products optional
- optional, not held alcoholic beverage products optional
Other moves recorded from ground steward/ground stewardess
Common questions about this move
Can a ground steward/ground stewardess become a club host/club hostess?
Yes, and it is a substantial move. A ground steward/ground stewardess already covers 29% of what a club host/club hostess is expected to do: 5 skills carry over, 5 of which the club host/club hostess role treats as required.
What skills does a ground steward/ground stewardess need to become a club host/club hostess?
6 required skills are missing, plus 17 optional ones. They fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by assisting and caring. The single most important is enforce regulations of selling alcoholic beverages to minors.
How hard is the move from ground steward/ground stewardess to club host/club hostess?
Its learning distance is 64.7 out of 100, which is the substantial band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.