Occupation Atlasau pair
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/f219f643-4df1-4a9a-b6c5-dc2f48c22806
au pair
Au pairs live and work for a host family in another country and are usually in charge of taking care of the family's children. They are young individuals, seeking to explore another culture while providing child care services as well as other light housekeeping activities such as cleaning, gardening and shopping.
Job Zone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 2: Some Preparation Needed
Some preparation. Usually a high school diploma, some previous work-related skill or experience, and a few months to a year of training with experienced workers.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
SACSocial · Artistic · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.30
- A Artistic3.50
- C Conventional3.34
- R Realistic2.91
- E Enterprising2.68
- I Investigative2.19
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Nannies (39-9011.01): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (13)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- assist children in developing personal skills
- assist children with homework
- attend to children's basic physical needs
- communicate with youth
- entertain people
- give constructive feedback
- handle chemical cleaning agents
- maintain relations with children's parents
- play with children
- prepare sandwiches
- promote human rights
- supervise children
- workplace sanitation
Optional (21)
- assess the development of youth
- baby care
- buy groceries
- carry out wound care
- clean rooms
- clean surfaces
- common children's diseases
- demonstrate when teaching
- disability care
- drive vehicles
- feed pets
- handle children's problems
- iron textiles
- prepare ready-made dishes
- provide first aid
- speak different languages
- support children's wellbeing
- support the positiveness of youths
- use cooking techniques
- use food preparation techniques
- use gardening equipment
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 13 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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8 shared · 2 more of its ownassist children with homework, play with children, prepare sandwiches, supervise children
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child care worker
8 shared · 2 more of its ownplay with children, supervise children, assist children in developing personal skills, attend to children's basic physical needs
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early years teaching assistant
4 shared · 15 more of its ownassist children in developing personal skills, attend to children's basic physical needs, workplace sanitation, give constructive feedback
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activity leader
4 shared · 18 more of its ownplay with children, entertain people, supervise children, communicate with youth
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early years special educational needs teacher
4 shared · 30 more of its ownassist children in developing personal skills, attend to children's basic physical needs, maintain relations with children's parents, give constructive feedback
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primary school teaching assistant
3 shared · 15 more of its ownassist children in developing personal skills, attend to children's basic physical needs, give constructive feedback
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tutor
3 shared · 15 more of its ownassist children with homework, maintain relations with children's parents, give constructive feedback
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This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license; O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. ESCO occupations and skills are from the European Commission's ESCO classification, and the occupation crosswalk is the official ESCO–O*NET mapping by the ESCO Secretariat with USDOL/ETA. This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. BlissPoint Analytics has modified all or some of this information: skill, task and descriptor ratings are rounded to one decimal, and ESCO occupations show Job Zone and interests copied from a crosswalked O*NET occupation. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.