Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a chocolatier can go next

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

Chocolatiers make confectionery products with chocolate. They perform activities such as examination, feeling, and tasting of ground chocolate paste. Such analysis leads them to ascertain if colour, texture, and taste of the chocolate paste meets specifications.

Also known as chocolate maker, chocolate producer, chocolate goods maker.

Craft and related trades workers 43 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: liquor grinding mill operator, 45%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
liquor grinding mill operator 45% covered extract mixer tester 39% covered cacao beans cleaner 38% covered candy machine operator 38% covered confectioner 38% covered chocolatier You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from chocolatier, 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 chocolatier already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A chocolatier needs 28 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
  • sculpt chocolate communication, collaboration and creativity
  • cacao beans varieties engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • history of chocolate arts and humanities
  • chemical aspects of chocolates engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • process from cacao to chocolate engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • produce confectionery from chocolate handling and moving
  • temper chocolate handling and moving
  • types of chocolate engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • make artistic food creations assisting and caring
  • manufacturing of confectionery handling and moving
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Chocolatier 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 chocolatier’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.