Restaurant host/restaurant hostess to doorman/doorwoman
A restaurant host/restaurant hostess already meets 35% of what the doorman/doorwoman role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.
51.4/ 100
1 How much of what a doorman/doorwoman is expected to do is already part of a restaurant host/restaurant hostess’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 this move works
A doorman/doorwoman role treats 3 of its required skills as things a restaurant host/restaurant hostess already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- assist clients with special needs
- comply with food safety and hygiene
- maintain customer service
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 4 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 restaurant host/restaurant hostess background worth leading with.
- 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 4 carried skills, including the 3 the doorman/doorwoman role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 10 missing skills fall into 4 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 detect drug abuse required
- 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
- still to learn park guest's vehicle required
- optional, not held handle guest luggage optional
- optional, not held handle delivered packages optional
- optional, not held ensure hotel security optional
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.
- 01 detect drug abuse practise this
- 02 greet guests practise this
- 03 park guest's vehicle 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 4 skills that carry over
- already held assist clients with special needs skill
- already held comply with food safety and hygiene skill
- already held maintain customer service skill
- already held handle customer complaints skill
6 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held ensure hotel security optional
- 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
16 held skills the doorman/doorwoman role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role accommodate special seating skill
- not needed by the target role advise guests on menus for special events skill
- not needed by the target role arrange tables skill
- not needed by the target role assist VIP guests skill
- not needed by the target role assist customers skill
- not needed by the target role assist guest departure skill
- not needed by the target role check dining room cleanliness skill
- not needed by the target role clean surfaces skill
- not needed by the target role devise special promotions skill
- not needed by the target role maintain relationship with customers skill
- not needed by the target role present menus skill
- not needed by the target role process reservations skill
- not needed by the target role seat customers according to the waiting list skill
- not needed by the target role take food and beverage orders from customers skill
- not needed by the target role welcome restaurant guests skill
- not needed by the target role work in a hospitality team skill
Other moves recorded from restaurant host/restaurant hostess
Common questions about this move
Can a restaurant host/restaurant hostess become a doorman/doorwoman?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. A restaurant host/restaurant hostess already covers 35% of what a doorman/doorwoman is expected to do: 4 skills carry over, 3 of which the doorman/doorwoman role treats as required.
What skills does a restaurant host/restaurant hostess need to become a doorman/doorwoman?
4 required skills are missing, plus 6 optional ones. They fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by assisting and caring. The single most important is detect drug abuse.
How hard is the move from restaurant host/restaurant hostess to doorman/doorwoman?
Its learning distance is 51.4 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.