From chocolatier to confectioner
12 of the 33 essential skills of a confectioner are already essential for a chocolatier — about 36% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from chocolatier in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 12
- skills carry over
- 21
- would be new
- 36%
- of the target job covered
- 33
- essential skills of a confectioner
What a confectioner does
Confectioners make a varied range of cakes, candies and other confectionery items for industrial purposes or for direct selling.
What carries over
12 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply GMP
- apply HACCP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- care for food aesthetic
- chemical aspects of chocolates
- create new recipes
- exert quality control to processing food
- manufacturing of confectionery
- mould chocolate
- operate a heat treatment process
- produce confectionery from chocolate
- temper chocolate
What would be new
21 skillsEssential for a confectioner and not for a chocolatier. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- bake confections
- bake goods
- bakery ingredients
- bakery production methods
- chemical aspects of sugar
- coat food products
- comply with food safety and hygiene
- enforce health and safety regulations for bread products
- ensure correct use of bakery equipment
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- knead food products
- maintain food specifications
- monitor coating specifications
- monitor temperature in farinaceous processes
- monitor temperature in manufacturing process of food and beverages
- nutrients of confectionery
- operate mixing of food products
- prepare bakery products
- select adequate ingredients
- tend confectionery manufacturing equipment
- work according to recipe
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a confectioner?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.