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First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in preparing and serving food.

Sector: Government
Preparation: Zone 2 — some preparation needed
O*NET code: 35-1012.00

What you'll actually do

The activities O*NET rates highest for this occupation, most important first. Numbers are out of 100.

Getting Information

a major part of the work — rated 85/100 for importance.
Training and Teaching Others

a major part of the work — rated 74/100 for importance.
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates

a major part of the work — rated 73/100 for importance.
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards

a major part of the work — rated 73/100 for importance.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships

a major part of the work — rated 73/100 for importance.
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public

a major part of the work — rated 72/100 for importance.

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in preparing and serving food.

What it takes

Two numbers per line: the level the work expects, and how important it is to doing the job well. Both are O*NET ratings, already on a 0–100 scale.

Skills

Management of Personnel Resources

Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Coordination

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Monitoring

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Speaking

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Instructing

Needed at a basic working level (45/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.

Knowledge

Customer and Personal Service

Needed at a solid working level (53/100), and rated 79/100 for importance.
Administration and Management

Needed at a solid working level (49/100), and rated 65/100 for importance.
Food Production

Needed at a solid working level (51/100), and rated 63/100 for importance.
English Language

Needed at a solid working level (47/100), and rated 63/100 for importance.

Abilities

Oral Comprehension

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Oral Expression

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Problem Sensitivity

Needed at a basic working level (45/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Deductive Reasoning

Needed at a basic working level (43/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.

How people get in

O*NET places this occupation in Zone 2 — some preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.

Education

A high-school diploma is the usual starting point.

Experience

Some prior work experience helps but is rarely required.

Training

Expect a few months to a year of on-the-job training.

How the work tends to run

Each line below is read off a single O*NET activity rating for this occupation — named, so you can disagree with it.

The work is physical — you are on your feet and handling things, not sitting still.From “Performing General Physical Activities”
You are in front of the public, so the job is partly performance.From “Performing for or Working Directly with the Public”
Long-running relationships carry the work; the same people come back.From “Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships”
Part of the job is other people’s output, not only your own.From “Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others”
Rules and standards are checkable and someone checks them.From “Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards”

How FlightWay scores your fit against this

No black box. Here is the whole method, factor by factor.

1. You answer a short quiz: Your answers build a profile across the same 161 O*NET dimensions this page is describing — skills, knowledge, abilities and work activities. Same axes, so the comparison is like-for-like.
2. We correlate the two profiles: Fit is a mean-centered cosine — a correlation between the SHAPE of your profile and the shape of First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers. Centering matters: raw similarity between any two occupations sits at 0.70–0.85 because all work shares a common profile, so without it every career would look like a match.
3. The number you see is personality fit only: "Would I want this work" and "am I ready for this work" are different questions, and averaging them answers neither. So readiness — what your résumé, coursework and projects prove — is scored separately and shown next to fit, never blended into it.
4. Every factor is visible: You can open any match and see which dimensions pushed it up and which pulled it down. If you disagree with the number, you can see exactly where it came from.

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