What is the difference between 'What are you?' and 'What do you do?' in the job meaning?
How to sense this difference if I need to ask about profession?
Answer
I meet a lot of people who are on holiday. I generally ask first where they come from, and then ask "What do you do there?". If somebody then says "I'm a doctor", I could then say "What kind of doctor are you?"
So, those are your two questions, but each needs a little more context to make it clear what exactly you are asking for.
Note that you can't ask somebody what is their profession: tradesmen, housewives, students, etc might be offended.
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