From industrial cook to baker
13 of the 35 essential skills of a baker are already essential for a industrial cook — about 37% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from industrial cook 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.
- 13
- skills carry over
- 22
- would be new
- 37%
- 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
13 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- administer ingredients in food production
- apply flame handling regulations
- apply GMP
- apply HACCP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- bake goods
- ensure sanitation
- follow hygienic procedures during food processing
- knead food products
- maintain cutting equipment
- operate mixing of food products
- select adequate ingredients
- work according to recipe
What would be new
22 skillsEssential for a baker and not for a industrial cook. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- administer lactic ferment cultures to manufacturing products
- bakery ingredients
- bakery production methods
- care for food aesthetic
- check quality of products on the production line
- clean food and beverage machinery
- crafting
- ensure correct use of bakery equipment
- financial capability
- food and beverage industry
- food safety principles
- mark differences in colours
- measure precise food processing operations
- monitor flour unloading equipment
- monitor machine operations
- monitor temperature in farinaceous processes
- mould doughs
- operate weighing machine
- prepare bakery products
- set up machine controls
- store raw food materials
- tend bakery ovens
Other moves from industrial cook
2 roles- prepared meals nutritionist13 skills in common
- pastry maker11 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.