Locker room attendant to cloak room attendant
A locker room attendant already meets 52% of what the cloak room attendant role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.
46.4/ 100
1 How much of what a cloak room attendant is expected to do is already part of a locker room attendant’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 cloak room attendant role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A cloak room attendant role treats 3 of its required skills as things a locker room attendant already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- communicate with customers
- maintain customer service
- manage lost and found articles
What stands in the way is 4 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 14 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A cloak room attendant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a locker room attendant background worth leading with.
- already held provide information on facility's services assisting and caring
- already held restock towels management skills
- already held restock toilet facilities' supplies handling and moving
- already held clean toilet facilities handling and moving
- already held handle linen in stock handling and moving
- already held manage lost and found articles assisting and caring
All 14 carried skills, including the 3 the cloak room attendant role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 11 missing skills fall into 5 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 allocate numbers to clients' belongings required
- still to learn maintain cleanliness in the cloak room required
- still to learn tend to clients' personal items required
- still to learn greet guests required
- optional, not held provide directions to guests optional
- optional, not held assist guest departure optional
- optional, not held assist clients with special needs optional
- optional, not held sell snacks optional
- optional, not held collect fees for cloak room service optional
- optional, not held oversee guest laundry service optional
- optional, not held ensure hotel security optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a cloak room attendant role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 allocate numbers to clients' belongings practise this
- 02 maintain cleanliness in the cloak room practise this
- 03 tend to clients' personal items 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 14 skills that carry over
- already held communicate with customers skill
- already held maintain customer service skill
- already held manage lost and found articles skill
- already held check tickets at venue entry skill
- already held clean toilet facilities skill
- already held fire safety regulations knowledge
- already held handle customer complaints skill
- already held handle linen in stock skill
- already held handle surveillance equipment skill
- already held maintain professional administration skill
- already held manage emergency evacuation plans skill
- already held provide information on facility's services skill
- already held restock toilet facilities' supplies skill
- already held restock towels skill
7 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held collect fees for cloak room service optional
- optional, not held ensure hotel security optional
- optional, not held oversee guest laundry service optional
- optional, not held provide directions to guests optional
- optional, not held assist clients with special needs optional
- optional, not held assist guest departure optional
- optional, not held sell snacks optional
7 held skills the cloak room attendant role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role allocate locker space skill
- not needed by the target role clean building floors skill
- not needed by the target role cleaning industry health and safety measures knowledge
- not needed by the target role collect items for laundry service skill
- not needed by the target role follow organisational guidelines in the cleaning industry skill
- not needed by the target role maintain cleaning equipment skill
- not needed by the target role provide athletic equipment to clients skill
Other moves recorded from locker room attendant
Common questions about this move
Can a locker room attendant become a cloak room attendant?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. A locker room attendant already covers 52% of what a cloak room attendant is expected to do: 14 skills carry over, 3 of which the cloak room attendant role treats as required.
What skills does a locker room attendant need to become a cloak room attendant?
4 required skills are missing, plus 7 optional ones. They fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by handling and moving. The single most important is allocate numbers to clients' belongings.
How hard is the move from locker room attendant to cloak room attendant?
Its learning distance is 46.4 out of 100, which is the moderate 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.