Career Overlap Transition record
RecordMove

Hospitality establishment security officer to doorman/doorwoman

A hospitality establishment security officer already meets 50% of what the doorman/doorwoman role asks for. The move turns on 3 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional
From hospitality establishment security officer
50 % overlap
Partial match
To doorman/doorwoman
6 You already bring
3 Still to learn
14 Skills in the target role2
Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

40.4/ 100

1 How much of what a doorman/doorwoman is expected to do is already part of a hospitality establishment security officer’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 doorman/doorwoman role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.

Why

Why this move works

A doorman/doorwoman role treats 4 of its required skills as things a hospitality establishment security officer already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

  • assist clients with special needs
  • comply with food safety and hygiene
  • detect drug abuse
  • maintain customer service

What stands in the way is 3 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 6 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A doorman/doorwoman role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a hospitality establishment security officer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held ensure hotel security information skills
  • already held detect drug abuse assisting and caring
  • already held assist clients with special needs communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held comply with food safety and hygiene assisting and caring
  • already held handle customer complaints communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held maintain customer service communication, collaboration and creativity

All 6 carried skills, including the 4 the doorman/doorwoman role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 8 missing skills fall into 3 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.

Skill to pick up Tier
01 assisting and caring 2 required, 3 supplementary
  • still to learn greet guests required
  • still to learn screen clients required
  • optional, not held provide tourism related information optional
  • optional, not held provide door security optional
  • optional, not held run errands on behalf of customers optional
02 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 required
  • still to learn park guest's vehicle required
03 handling and moving 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held handle guest luggage optional
  • optional, not held handle delivered packages optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a doorman/doorwoman role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 6 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held assist clients with special needs skill
  • already held comply with food safety and hygiene skill
  • already held detect drug abuse skill
  • already held maintain customer service skill
  • already held ensure hotel security skill
  • already held handle customer complaints skill
5 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to pick up Tier
  • optional, not held handle guest luggage optional
  • optional, not held provide tourism related information optional
  • optional, not held handle delivered packages optional
  • optional, not held provide door security optional
  • optional, not held run errands on behalf of customers optional
27 held skills the doorman/doorwoman role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role create solutions to problems skill
  • not needed by the target role deal with unforeseen incidents in hospitality skill
  • not needed by the target role detain offenders skill
  • not needed by the target role develop working procedures skill
  • not needed by the target role ensure cross-department cooperation skill
  • not needed by the target role ensure protection of car parking skill
  • not needed by the target role ensure the privacy of guests skill
  • not needed by the target role handle surveillance equipment skill
  • not needed by the target role human dynamics as part of hospitality security knowledge
  • not needed by the target role legal use-of-force knowledge
  • not needed by the target role maintain incident reporting records skill
  • not needed by the target role manage budgets skill
  • not needed by the target role manage emergency evacuation plans skill
  • not needed by the target role manage health and safety standards skill
  • not needed by the target role manage outsourced security skill
  • not needed by the target role manage security equipment skill
  • not needed by the target role manage staff skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor work for special events skill
  • not needed by the target role perform internal investigations skill
  • not needed by the target role plan medium to long term objectives skill
  • not needed by the target role plan shifts of employees skill
  • not needed by the target role procure hospitality products skill
  • not needed by the target role protect important clients skill
  • not needed by the target role set payment handling strategies skill
  • not needed by the target role set standards for handling valuables skill
  • not needed by the target role tend to clients' personal items skill
  • not needed by the target role undertake employee screening skill
Index
FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can a hospitality establishment security officer become a doorman/doorwoman?

Yes, and it is a moderate move. A hospitality establishment security officer already covers 50% of what a doorman/doorwoman is expected to do: 6 skills carry over, 4 of which the doorman/doorwoman role treats as required.

What skills does a hospitality establishment security officer need to become a doorman/doorwoman?

3 required skills are missing, plus 5 optional ones. They fall into 3 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by assisting and caring. The single most important is greet guests.

How hard is the move from hospitality establishment security officer to doorman/doorwoman?

Its learning distance is 40.4 out of 100, which is the moderate band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.

Note

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.