From confectioner to chocolatier
12 of the 28 essential skills of a chocolatier are already essential for a confectioner — about 43% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 12
- skills carry over
- 16
- would be new
- 43%
- of the target job covered
- 28
- essential skills of a chocolatier
What a chocolatier does
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.
What carries over
12 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply GMP
- apply HACCP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- care for food aesthetic
- chemical aspects of chocolates
- create new recipes
- exert quality control to processing food
- manufacturing of confectionery
- mould chocolate
- operate a heat treatment process
- produce confectionery from chocolate
- temper chocolate
What would be new
16 skillsEssential for a chocolatier and not for a confectioner. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- cacao beans varieties
- clean food and beverage machinery
- create new concepts
- ensure public safety and security
- financial capability
- food and beverage industry
- food safety principles
- history of chocolate
- implement marketing strategies
- implement sales strategies
- make artistic food creations
- perform sensory evaluation of food products
- process from cacao to chocolate
- sculpt chocolate
- select adequate packaging for food products
- types of chocolate
Other moves from confectioner
2 roles- baker15 skills in common
- pastry maker13 skills in common
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a chocolatier?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.