Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a baker can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a baker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

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.

Also known as bread baker, bakery specialist, bakery employee.

Craft and related trades workers 83 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: pasta operator, 73%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
pasta operator 73% covered blender operator 62% covered confectioner 62% covered fruit and vegetable canner 57% covered fish trimmer 57% covered baker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from baker, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a baker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A baker needs 35 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • mould doughs handling and moving
  • bakery ingredients engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • bakery production methods engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • monitor flour unloading equipment handling and moving
  • tend bakery ovens working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • bake goods handling and moving
  • administer lactic ferment cultures to manufacturing products handling and moving
  • crafting arts and humanities
  • ensure correct use of bakery equipment assisting and caring
  • monitor temperature in farinaceous processes working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a baker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Baker is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a baker’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.