Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a cook can go next

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

Cooks are culinary operatives who are able to prepare and present food, normally in domestic and institutional environments.

Also known as grill cook, roast cook, under chief of the kitchen, sauté cook, chief of the kitchen, food keeper, fry cook, culinary operative, deputy kitchen chef, second kitchen chef, apprentice, vegetable cook.

Service and sales workers 50 skills on file 11 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: pizzaiolo, 79%

Fig. 2 · Career map 6 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
pizzaiolo 79% covered kitchen assistant 65% covered chef 59% covered pastry chef 55% covered private chef 54% covered kitchen porter 49% covered cook You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 6 nearest destinations from cook, 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 cook already covers. All 11 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 cook needs 15 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
  • receive kitchen supplies management skills
  • use culinary finishing techniques assisting and caring
  • maintain kitchen equipment at correct temperature handling and moving
  • handover the food preparation area handling and moving
  • use reheating techniques assisting and caring
  • ensure cleanliness of food preparation area information skills
  • maintain a safe, hygienic and secure working environment assisting and caring
  • use food cutting tools handling and moving
  • work in a hospitality team communication, collaboration and creativity
  • store raw food materials handling and moving
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Cook is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. 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 cook’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.