Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a pastry chef can go next

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

Pastry chefs are responsible for preparing, cooking and presenting desserts, sweet products and bakery products.

Also known as pastry cook, baker, confectioner, glacier, confectionary chef, confiseur, patissier, décorateur, dessert chef, pastry decorator.

Technicians and associate professionals 31 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: chef, 64%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
chef 64% covered pizzaiolo 62% covered grill cook 60% covered fish cook 55% covered cook 49% covered pastry chef You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from pastry chef, 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 pastry chef 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 pastry chef needs 19 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
  • cook pastry products assisting and caring
  • think creatively about food and beverages communication, collaboration and creativity
  • types of whisks services
  • ensure maintenance of kitchen equipment handling and moving
  • 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
  • plan menus communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain a safe, hygienic and secure working environment assisting and caring
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Pastry chef is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 pastry chef’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.