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Description

Mix and serve drinks to patrons, directly or through waitstaff.

Interests

  • Realistic
  • Conventional
  • Enterprising

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Work Values

  • Relationships
  • Independence
  • Support

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Work Styles

  • Dependability
  • Self-Control
  • Integrity
  • Attention to Detail
  • Cooperation

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Tasks

  • Clean glasses, utensils, and bar equipment.
  • Collect money for drinks served.
  • Balance cash receipts.
  • Check identification of customers to verify age requirements for purchase of alcohol.
  • Clean bars, work areas, and tables.

Work Activities

  • Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
  • Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
  • Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
  • Getting Information
  • Training and Teaching Others

Detailed Work Activities

  • Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
  • Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
  • Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
  • Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
  • Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
  • Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
  • Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
  • Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
  • Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
  • Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.

Technology Skills

  • Electronic mail software
  • Point of sale POS software
  • Internet browser software
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Web page creation and editing software

Abilities

  • Oral Expression
  • Oral Comprehension
  • Information Ordering
  • Near Vision
  • Speech Recognition

Skills

  • Active Listening
  • Service Orientation
  • Social Perceptiveness
  • Coordination
  • Critical Thinking

Knowledge

  • Customer and Personal Service
  • English Language
  • Education and Training
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Administration and Management

Most Common Education Level

The “Most Common Education Level” refers to the level of education held by the majority of workers in a given occupation. For example, if the highest percentage of workers in a role have an Associate’s Degree, that suggests this is the typical educational requirement. Knowing this helps you plan how many years of education you may need to pursue that career.

Certificates

Certifying Organization

Global Foodservice Institute

Type

Core

Certificate name

Certified Beer Judge

Certifying Organization

Beer Judge Certification Program

Type

Specialty

Certificate name

ServSafe Alcohol

Certifying Organization

National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation

Type

Core

Income Percentile

The income percentiles show how earnings are distributed within a profession. The 10th percentile means that 10% of workers earned less than that amount. The median (50th percentile) indicates that half of workers earned more, and half earned less. The 90th percentile reflects what the top 10% of earners in the field make.

Income PercentileAnnual Income
Low (10%)$27,391
Median (50%)$31,921
High (90%)$39,652

Income by Experience

This table shows how income typically grows with experience—from entry level (0–2 years), to mid-level (3–5 years), to senior level (6–8 years), to expert level (8+ years).

ExperienceIncome
Entry Level $32,701
Mid Level $39,388
Senior Level $42,781
Expert Level $39,654

Employability

There are currently 734,300 jobs in this career path. Over the next 10 years, that number is expected to increase to 798,900 positions, reflecting a projected growth of 9%.

The Projected Job Growth figure refers to the expected increase or decrease in employment within a specific career field over a certain period of time.

Projected Job Growth of 9%

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