Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Food Service, Wait Staff, & Dining Room Management field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Food Service, Wait Staff, & Dining Room Management majors need many skills, but most especially Speaking. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Food Service, Wait Staff, & Dining Room Management majors need more than the average amount of Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, Management of Personnel Resources, Quality Control Analysis, Service Orientation, Operation and Control, Coordination, Monitoring, Instructing, Troubleshooting, Persuasion, Social Perceptiveness, Negotiation, Learning Strategies, Systems Evaluation, Time Management, Speaking, Mathematics, Systems Analysis, Operation Monitoring, Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Active Learning, Judgment and Decision Making, Complex Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension, Writing, Operations Analysis, Technology Design, Programming, Equipment Maintenance, Equipment Selection, Science, Installation, and Repairing.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Food Service, Wait Staff, & Dining Room Management majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Management of Financial Resources is very distinctive for majors, but the Speaking, Monitoring, Coordination, Service Orientation, Management of Personnel Resources, Critical Thinking, Social Perceptiveness, Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Time Management, Instructing, Persuasion, Systems Evaluation, Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Complex Problem Solving, Judgment and Decision Making, Mathematics, Negotiation, Systems Analysis, Writing, Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, Quality Control Analysis, Operation Monitoring, Operation and Control, Operations Analysis, Troubleshooting, Technology Design, Programming, Equipment Selection, Equipment Maintenance, Science, Installation, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.
