employment- jobs and career

Making informed career decisions requires reliable information about opportunities in the future. Opportunities result from the relationships between the population, labor force, and the demand for goods and services.

A vast array of careers is waiting for you with a degree or certificate in the fields of culinary arts, cooking, baking, food preparation, or restaurant management. No matter where you choose to work, your culinary degree or certificate brings you to the eye of hiring employers. It provides you with the flexibility to move among industries, whether in small or large firms. The skills you learn allow you to keep pace in today's rapidly evolving business world.

Chefs, cooks and food preparation workers held more than 2.8 million jobs in 2000, primarily in restaurants and other retail eating and drinking places. To achieve the level of skill required of an executive chef or cook in a fine restaurant, many years of training and experience are necessary. An increasing number of chefs and cooks obtain their training through vocational programs or 2- or 4-year colleges. Those who have completed courses in commercial food preparation may start as a cook or chef without working their way up from a lower skilled kitchen job.

A Culinary Arts degree gives an advantage to those desiring to work in better restaurants and hotels, whose hiring standards are usually high. Generally, employers prefer candidates who have been trained in trade schools, vocational centers, colleges, professional associations, or trade unions. Through 2010, job openings are expected to be plentiful, due in part to high turnover in the fast food industry. ( jobs employment ) www.w3education.org