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Chefs

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  • Job description
  • Advancement and mobility
  • Hourly wage
  • Job prospects for 2021-2025
  • Sectors of activity
  • Training and requirements
  • Main skills and characteristics
  • Personality profiles (RIASEC)
  • Additional information

Job description

These individuals plan, organize, direct, and control activities related to meal preparation. They work in:

  • Restaurants
  • Tourist accommodation establishments
  • Hospitals and other health care facilities
  • Food Services
  • Ships
  • Tourist sites and event organization companies
  • Golf clubs
  • Ski centres

Environment

  • Controlled ambient temperature
  • Equipment, machinery, tools
  • Odours
  • Fire, steam, hot surfaces

Main tasks

  • Develop menus for weddings, banquets, and special functions.
  • Ensure that the quality of the food is up to standards.
  • Assess needs concerning food, food cost, and labour costs.
  • Purchase and maintain equipment, as required.
  • Recruit and supervise staff.
  • Prepare and cook meals or food.
  • Explain new cooking techniques and the operation of new equipment to kitchen staff.
  • Order food and kitchen supplies as needed.
  • Teach cooks to prepare, cook, decorate, and display food.
  • Conduct a daily inspection of work areas and ensure that occupational hygiene, sanitation, health, and safety standards are met.

Advancement and mobility

  • There is some mobility between the different occupations in this group.
  • Qualified cooks obtain a Red Seal endorsement upon successful completion of the Interprovincial Examination.

Hourly wage

The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2019 to 2021.
Minimum
$14.25
Median
$19.00
Maximum
$28.34

Job prospects for 2021-2025

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Job prospects for 2021-2025

Job prospects

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Very good

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available

Total jobs for 2020

All of Québec

7,000

All of Québec

na

Gender distribution

All of Québec

Not available.
27.6% Female
72.4% Male

Not available.
  • 27.6% Female
  • 72.4% Male

Job types

All of Québec

Not available.
Full time
Part time

Not available.
  • Full time
  • Part time

Yearly wage on 2015

All of Québec

$33,000

All of Québec

Other characteristics

All of Québec

  • Non traditional for women
  • None

All of Québec

  • Non traditional for women
  • None

Sectors of activity

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Accommodation and Food Services
    NAICS 72
    82% of jobs
  2. Retail Trade
    NAICS 44, 45
    4% of jobs
  3. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    3% of jobs
  4. Food, Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
    NAICS 311, 312
    3% of jobs
  5. Arts, Entertainment and Recreation
    NAICS 71
    2% of jobs
  6. Others
    6% of jobs

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Accommodation and Food Services
    NAICS 72
    82% of jobs
  2. Retail Trade
    NAICS 44, 45
    4% of jobs
  3. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    3% of jobs
  4. Food, Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
    NAICS 311, 312
    3% of jobs
  5. Arts, Entertainment and Recreation
    NAICS 71
    2% of jobs
  6. Others
    6% of jobs