Chefs and Head Cooks

Direct and may participate in the preparation, seasoning, and cooking of salads, soups, fish, meats, vegetables, desserts, or other foods.

Sector: Skilled Trades
Preparation: Zone 3 — medium preparation needed
O*NET code: 35-1011.00

What you'll actually do

The activities O*NET rates highest for this occupation, most important first. Numbers are out of 100.

Training and Teaching Others

a major part of the work — rated 78/100 for importance.
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others

a major part of the work — rated 77/100 for importance.
Developing and Building Teams

a major part of the work — rated 76/100 for importance.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work

a major part of the work — rated 73/100 for importance.
Coaching and Developing Others

a major part of the work — rated 73/100 for importance.
Getting Information

a major part of the work — rated 73/100 for importance.

Direct and may participate in the preparation, seasoning, and cooking of salads, soups, fish, meats, vegetables, desserts, or other foods. May plan and price menu items, order supplies, and keep records and accounts.

What it takes

Two numbers per line: the level the work expects, and how important it is to doing the job well. Both are O*NET ratings, already on a 0–100 scale.

Skills

Coordination

Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
Monitoring

Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Management of Personnel Resources

Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Speaking

Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Time Management

Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.

Knowledge

Food Production

Needed at a high level (61/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
Production and Processing

Needed at a high level (65/100), and rated 76/100 for importance.
Customer and Personal Service

Needed at a high level (64/100), and rated 73/100 for importance.
Personnel and Human Resources

Needed at a high level (61/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.

Abilities

Problem Sensitivity

Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
Oral Expression

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
Oral Comprehension

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Information Ordering

Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.

How people get in

O*NET places this occupation in Zone 3 — medium preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.

Education

Vocational training, an associate degree, or equivalent on-the-job experience.

Experience

One to two years of related experience is typical.

Training

Employers expect you to arrive with the core skill already.

How the work tends to run

Each line below is read off a single O*NET activity rating for this occupation — named, so you can disagree with it.

The work is physical — you are on your feet and handling things, not sitting still.From “Performing General Physical Activities”
Part of the job is other people’s output, not only your own.From “Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others”

How FlightWay scores your fit against this

No black box. Here is the whole method, factor by factor.

1. You answer a short quiz: Your answers build a profile across the same 161 O*NET dimensions this page is describing — skills, knowledge, abilities and work activities. Same axes, so the comparison is like-for-like.
2. We correlate the two profiles: Fit is a mean-centered cosine — a correlation between the SHAPE of your profile and the shape of Chefs and Head Cooks. Centering matters: raw similarity between any two occupations sits at 0.70–0.85 because all work shares a common profile, so without it every career would look like a match.
3. The number you see is personality fit only: "Would I want this work" and "am I ready for this work" are different questions, and averaging them answers neither. So readiness — what your résumé, coursework and projects prove — is scored separately and shown next to fit, never blended into it.
4. Every factor is visible: You can open any match and see which dimensions pushed it up and which pulled it down. If you disagree with the number, you can see exactly where it came from.

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