HOW TO GET THERE
Typical pathway
A Canadian secondary-school student interested in baking often starts by taking English, Math, Family Studies, and other food-related courses. After school, a common route is to get entry-level experience in a bakery, grocery store, or other food service setting and learn by working with recipes, doughs, batters, and baking equipment. Some employers may prefer or provide on-the-job training, while others may look for baking or culinary training through a college or vocational program. With experience, bakers may take on more responsibility such as decorating, ordering supplies, planning production, or helping train new staff.
THE WORK
What you may do
Legacy duties
- Prepare dough for pies, bread and rolls and sweet goods, and prepare batters for muffins, cookies, cakes, icings and frostings according to recipes or special customer orders
- Operate machinery
- Bake mixed doughs and batters
- Frost and decorate cakes or other baked goods
- Ensure quality of products meets established standards
- Draw up production schedule to determine type and quantity of goods to produce
- Purchase baking supplies
- May oversee sales and merchandising of baked goods
- May hire, train and supervise baking personnel and kitchen staff.
SKILLS TO BUILD
Skills used in this Career
CookingCreative workCustomer Service