Chefs
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Tasks & Responsibilities
  • 01
    Planning and developing recipes and menus, estimating food and labour costs, and ordering food supplies;
  • 02
    monitoring quality of dishes at all stages of preparation and presentation;
  • 03
    Discussing food preparation issues with managers, dieticians and kitchen staff;
  • 04
    Instructing cooks and other workers in the preparation, cooking, garnishing and presentation of food;
  • 05
    Supervising preparation and cooking of food, and instructing cooks as required;
  • 06
    Preparing special dishes and inventing recipes;
  • 07
    testing cooked food by tasting or smelling it;
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    Requisitioning or purchasing food supplies and kitchen equipment as necessary and checking them for quality and quantity;
  • 09
    Performing related tasks; and
  • 10
    Supervising, scheduling and monitoring the tasks of other workers.

What are the skills required?

Skills, knowledege and abilities that are essential to carry out a task with determined results. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills.

Hard Skill
Cooking
Cooking or cookery is the art, technology and craft of preparing food for consumption with or without the use of heat.
Soft Skill
Communication
The ability to communicate effectively with superiors, colleagues, and staff is essential, no matter what industry you work in.
Soft Skill
Time Management
Time management is the process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities - especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.
Hard Skill
Food Preparation
Food preparation preparing food for eating, generally requires selection, measurement and combination of ingredients in an ordered procedure so as to achieve desired results.
Soft Skill
Leadership
Leadership is both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual or organization to "lead" or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.
Soft Skill
Market Research
Market research (also in some contexts known as Industrial Research) is any organized effort to gather information about target markets or customers.
Hard Skill
Meal Preparation
Meal preparation, sometimes called "meal prep," is the process of planning and preparing meals.
Soft Skill
Planning
Planning (also called forethought) is the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve a desired goal.
Hard Skill
Administration Management
The process of creating information systems and supervising its flow from and to others within an organization.
Hard Skill
Order Management
Order management is the administration of business processes related to orders for goods or services.
Soft Skill
Problem Solving
Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
Soft Skill
Report Writing
A report or account is any informational work (usually of writing, speech, television, or film) made with the specific intention of relaying information or recounting certain events in a widely presentable form.
Soft Skill
Research
Experience performing creative and systematic work to understand a product, market, or customer, either before building a new solution, or to troubleshoot an existing issue
Hard Skill
Restaurant Management
Restaurant Management is the profession of managing a restaurant.
Soft Skill
Speaking
ability to communicate effectively. These skills allow the speaker, to convey his message in a passionate, thoughtful, and convincing manner
Hard Skill
Team Management
Team management is the ability of an individual or an organization to administer and coordinate a group of individuals to perform a task.
Soft Skill
Writing
Experience expressing business messages effectively in written form. This may include planning drafting and revising as necessary.
Soft Skill
Written Communication
Working experience of Written Communication, which involves any type of message that makes use of the written word. Written communication is the most important and the most effective of any mode of business communication.
Field of Study Required
Field of study consists of a broad area of academic and skills qualifications that come under a similar branch of subject knowledge. In addition, courses offered under each field of study require similar academic entry requirements.
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