5 - Service and sales workers
Child Topics
51 - Personal service workers
Description
Personal services workers provide personal services related to travel, housekeeping, catering and hospitality, hairdressing and beauty treatment, animal care grooming and training, companionship and other services of a personal nature. Competent performance in most occupations in this sub-major group requires skills at the second ISCO skill level.
Tasks performed by workers in this sub-major group usually include: organizing and providing services in connection with travel and sightseeing; housekeeping; preparing and serving food and beverages; hairdressing and beauty treatment; telling fortunes; embalming and arranging funerals; grooming, caring for and training animals; teaching people to drive motor vehicles; providing companionship and other personal services. Supervision of other workers may be included.
Occupations in this sub-major group are classified into the following minor groups:
511 Travel Attendants, Conductors and Guides
512 Cooks
513 Waiters and Bartenders
514 Hairdressers, Beauticians and Related Workers
515 Building and Housekeeping Supervisors
516 Other Personal Services Workers
Alternative titles
ISCO Group
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Sources
ESCO
- 511 - Travel attendants, conductors and guides
- 512 - Cooks
- 513 - Waiters and bartenders
- 514 - Hairdressers, beauticians and related workers
- 515 - Building and housekeeping supervisors
- 516 - Other personal services workers
- 5111 - Travel attendants and travel stewards
- 5112 - Transport conductors
- 5113 - Travel guides
- 5120 - Cooks
- 5131 - Waiters
- 5132 - Bartenders
- 5141 - Hairdressers
- 5142 - Beauticians and related workers
- 5151 - Cleaning and housekeeping supervisors in offices, hotels and other establishments
- 5152 - Domestic housekeepers
- 5153 - Building caretakers
- 5161 - Astrologers, fortune-tellers and related workers
- 5162 - Companions and valets
- 5163 - Undertakers and embalmers
- 5164 - Pet groomers and animal care workers
- 5165 - Driving instructors
- 5169 - Personal services workers not elsewhere classified
52 - Sales workers
Description
Sales workers sell and demonstrate goods in wholesale or retail shops, at stalls and markets, door-to-door, via telephone or customer contact centres. They may record and accept payment for goods and services purchased, and may operate small retail outlets. Competent performance in most occupations in this sub-major group requires skills at the second ISCO skill level.
Tasks performed by workers in this sub-major group usually include: selling goods in wholesale or retail establishments, at street or market stalls, door-to-door, via telephone or customer contact centres; demonstrating and displaying goods to potential customers; selling and serving food for immediate consumption at counters and in the street; buying or contracting a regular supply of products to be sold; stacking and displaying goods for sale and wrapping or packing goods sold; determining product mix, stock and price levels for goods to be sold; operating cash registers, optical price scanners, computers or other equipment to record and accept payment for the purchase of goods and services. Supervision of other workers may be required in some occupations classified here.
Occupations in this sub-major group are classified into the following minor groups:
521 Street and Market Salespersons
522 Shop Salespersons
523 Cashiers and Ticket Clerks
524 Other Sales Workers
Note
Shop managers and sales managers are classified in Major Group 1: Managers. Technical, medical and information and communications technology sales professionals are classified in Major Group 2: Professionals. Commercial sales and insurance representatives, finance and trade brokers, are classified in Major Group 3: Technicians and Associate Professionals. Street vendors (excluding food) are classified in Major Group 9: Elementary Occupations.
Alternative titles
ISCO Group
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Sources
ESCO
- 521 - Street and market salespersons
- 522 - Shop salespersons
- 523 - Cashiers and ticket clerks
- 524 - Other sales workers
- 5211 - Stall and market salespersons
- 5212 - Street food salespersons
- 5221 - Shop keepers
- 5222 - Shop supervisors
- 5223 - Shop sales assistants
- 5230 - Cashiers and ticket clerks
- 5241 - Fashion and other models
- 5242 - Sales demonstrators
- 5243 - Door to door salespersons
- 5244 - Contact centre salespersons
- 5245 - Service station attendants
- 5246 - Food service counter attendants
- 5249 - Sales workers not elsewhere classified
53 - Personal care workers
Description
Personal care workers provide care, supervision and assistance for children, patients and elderly, convalescent or disabled persons in institutional and residential settings. Competent performance in most occupations in this sub-major group requires skills at the second ISCO skill level.
Tasks performed by workers in this sub-major group usually include: assisting with mobility, washing and other personal needs; assisting children individually to learn social skills; supervising and participating in activities that enhance children’s physical, social, emotional and intellectual development; observing and reporting concerns to appropriate health or social service workers.
Occupations in this sub-major group are classified into the following minor groups:
531 Child Care Workers and Teachers’ Aides
532 Personal Care Workers in Health Services
Alternative titles
ISCO Group
53
Sources
ESCO
54 - Protective services workers
Description
Protective services workers protect individuals and property against fire and other hazards, maintain law and order and enforce laws and regulations. Competent performance in most occupations in this sub-major group requires skills at the second ISCO skill level.
Tasks performed by workers in this sub-major group usually include: preventing, fighting and extinguishing fires; rescuing people from burning buildings and accident sites and those trapped in dangerous situations; maintaining law and order, enforcing laws and regulations, patrolling public areas and arresting suspected offenders; directing traffic and assuming authority in the event of accidents; watching over and maintaining order among inmates of prisons, reformatories or penitentiaries; patrolling or monitoring premises to guard property against theft and vandalism, controlling access to establishments and maintaining order and enforcing regulations at public events and within establishments. Supervision of other workers may be included.
Occupations in this sub-major group are classified into the following minor group:
541 Protective Services Workers
Alternative titles
ISCO Group
54
Sources
ESCO