From confectioner to baker
15 of the 35 essential skills of a baker are already essential for a confectioner — about 43% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from confectioner 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.
- 15
- skills carry over
- 20
- would be new
- 43%
- of the target job covered
- 35
- essential skills of a baker
What a baker does
Bakers make a wide range of breads, pastries, and other baked goods. They follow all the processes from receipt and storage of raw materials, preparation of raw materials for bread-making, measurement and mixing of ingredients into dough and proof. They tend ovens to bake products to an adequate temperature and time.
What carries over
15 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
- bake goods
- bakery ingredients
- bakery production methods
- care for food aesthetic
- ensure correct use of bakery equipment
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- knead food products
- monitor temperature in farinaceous processes
- operate mixing of food products
- prepare bakery products
- select adequate ingredients
- work according to recipe
What would be new
20 skillsEssential for a baker and not for a confectioner. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- administer ingredients in food production
- administer lactic ferment cultures to manufacturing products
- apply flame handling regulations
- check quality of products on the production line
- clean food and beverage machinery
- crafting
- ensure sanitation
- financial capability
- food and beverage industry
- food safety principles
- maintain cutting equipment
- mark differences in colours
- measure precise food processing operations
- monitor flour unloading equipment
- monitor machine operations
- mould doughs
- operate weighing machine
- set up machine controls
- store raw food materials
- tend bakery ovens
Other moves from confectioner
2 roles- pastry maker13 skills in common
- chocolatier12 skills in common
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How far are you from being a baker?
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.