Occupation Atlasdomestic housekeeper
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/6d50f735-dca9-4a02-96dc-e4310ed98ae2
domestic housekeeper
Domestic housekeepers are responsible for all the household activities in a private house. They oversee and execute duties according to the needs of the employer such as cooking, cleaning and washing activities, taking care of children and gardening. They order supplies and are in charge of expenditures allocated. Domestic housekeepers may supervise and instruct household staff in large households.
Compare with another occupationCompare with domestic cleaner
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
ECREnterprising · Conventional · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- E Enterprising5.70
- C Conventional5.35
- R Realistic4.14
- S Social3.63
- I Investigative1.38
- A Artistic1.00
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 First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers (37-1011.00): 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 (23)
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.
- buy groceries
- clean rooms
- clean surfaces
- cleaning techniques
- control of expenses
- handle chemical cleaning agents
- identify customer's needs
- iron textiles
- maintain cleaning equipment
- maintain inventory of cleaning supplies
- maintain personal hygiene standards
- make the beds
- manage schedule of tasks
- monitor kitchen supplies
- order supplies
- perform cleaning duties
- remove dust
- satisfy customers
- store kitchen supplies
- supervise housekeeping operations
- vacuum surfaces
- wash the laundry
- work ergonomically
Optional (35)
- arrange special events
- assist children with homework
- assist clients with special needs
- attend to children's basic physical needs
- clean glass surfaces
- clean household linens
- collect mail
- communicate with youth
- control minor maintenance
- dietary regimes
- disseminate messages to people
- feed pets
- follow written instructions
- give instructions to staff
- greet guests
- handle linen in stock
- lawn care
- maintain gardening equipment
- manage cleaning activities
- manage staff
- organise wine cellar
- oversee maintenance work
- perform outdoor cleaning activities
- polish silverware
- promote human rights
- provide dog walking services
- serve beverages
- serve food in table service
- supervise children
- support children's wellbeing
- teach housekeeping skills
- tend to elderly people
- use cooking techniques
- use food preparation techniques
- wash the dishes
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 23 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
domestic cleaner
13 shared · 7 more of its ownmake the beds, wash the laundry, remove dust, vacuum surfaces
ESCO · Compare
building cleaner
6 shared · 18 more of its ownremove dust, maintain inventory of cleaning supplies, maintain cleaning equipment, clean surfaces
ESCO · Compare
companion
5 shared · 10 more of its ownmake the beds, wash the laundry, iron textiles, clean rooms
ESCO · Compare
drapery and carpet cleaner
5 shared · 13 more of its ownremove dust, vacuum surfaces, cleaning techniques, maintain cleaning equipment
ESCO · Compare
train cleaner
4 shared · 11 more of its owncleaning techniques, maintain inventory of cleaning supplies, maintain cleaning equipment, perform cleaning duties
ESCO · Compare
kitchen assistant
4 shared · 16 more of its ownmonitor kitchen supplies, store kitchen supplies, clean surfaces, handle chemical cleaning agents
ESCO · Compare
home care aide
4 shared · 19 more of its ownmake the beds, wash the laundry, buy groceries, iron textiles
ESCO · Compare
room attendant
3 shared · 6 more of its ownclean rooms, perform cleaning duties, handle chemical cleaning agents
ESCO · Compare
Use this in your own job architecture
BlissPoint Organization Viewer can link a role directly to this occupation and suggest these skills as that role's starting requirements.
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.