Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a confectioner can go next

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

Confectioners make a varied range of cakes, candies and other confectionery items for industrial purposes or for direct selling.

Also known as cakes and sweets maker, confectionary products worker, confectionary worker, cake maker.

Craft and related trades workers 59 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: pastry maker, 54%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
pastry maker 54% covered baking operator 51% covered chocolatier 50% covered pasta maker 48% covered baker 46% covered confectioner You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from confectioner, 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 confectioner already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A confectioner needs 33 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
  • tend confectionery manufacturing equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • coat food products handling and moving
  • bake confections handling and moving
  • chemical aspects of chocolates engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • enforce health and safety regulations for bread products assisting and caring
  • produce confectionery from chocolate handling and moving
  • temper chocolate handling and moving
  • bakery ingredients engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • bakery production methods engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • nutrients of confectionery engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a confectioner’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.