If you choose to work as a baker, you will prepare, bake and decorate bakery products such as cakes, bread, pastry, biscuits and small goods.
Tasks include:
- following recipes
- weighing and measuring
- mixing, shaping and panning
- setting oven temperatures and baking
- cooling and packaging
- decorating
- preparing orders and serving customers
- receiving and delivering goods
Bakers may specialise in one area such as:
- patisserie work
- cake decoration
- artisan breads
- confectionery
- advanced processing technology
Bakers with good qualifications and experience can progress to management or ownership positions within a bakery.
However, many people who gain a baking qualification go on to work in related industries. There are numerous career possibilities in the broader food industry.
People with baking qualifications become:
- specialist technical advisors
- bakery tutors
- food researchers, writers and editors
- caterers
- food stylists
- plant supervisors
- test bakery or laboratory technicians
- sales representatives
- merchandisers
- product managers
They also work in:
- customer support
- recipe and ingredient development
- hospitality
- media and publishing industry
Many of the most successful careers are based on knowledge and experience in more than one field. Adding a Baking qualification to Science, Engineering, Management, Nutrition or Food Technology degrees could fast-track you to a position in:
- food technology
- quality assurance and management
- product development or testing
- senior management roles
A Baking qualification could give you the advantage over other graduates and allow you to quickly add value within your chosen industry.