From pastry chef to head pastry chef
11 of the 31 essential skills of a head pastry chef are already essential for a pastry chef — about 35% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 11
- skills carry over
- 20
- would be new
- 35%
- of the target job covered
- 31
- essential skills of a head pastry chef
What a head pastry chef does
Head pastry chefs manage pastry staff and ensure the preparation, cooking and presentation of desserts, sweet products and pastry products.
What carries over
11 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- comply with food safety and hygiene
- ensure maintenance of kitchen equipment
- handover the food preparation area
- maintain a safe, hygienic and secure working environment
- maintain kitchen equipment at correct temperature
- manage staff
- plan menus
- types of whisks
- use cooking techniques
- use culinary finishing techniques
- use reheating techniques
What would be new
20 skillsEssential for a head pastry chef and not for a pastry chef. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- bake pastry for special events
- create innovative desserts
- decorate pastry for special events
- estimate costs of required supplies
- food storage
- handle customer complaints
- keep up with eating out trends
- maintain personal hygiene standards
- manage budgets
- manage medium term objectives
- manage revenue
- manage stock rotation
- monitor the use of kitchen equipment
- order supplies
- perform procurement processes
- plan medium to long term objectives
- plan shifts of employees
- recruit employees
- set prices of menu items
- supervise food quality
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a head pastry chef?
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.