General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts

What General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Majors Need to Know

O*NET surveyed people in occupations related to general cooking & related culinary arts and asked them what knowledge areas, skills, and abilities were important for their jobs. The responses were rated on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being most important.

Knowledge Areas for General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Majors

According to O*NET survey takers, a major in general cooking & related culinary arts should prepare you for careers in which you will need to be knowledgeable in the following areas:

• Food Production - Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
• Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Administration and Management - Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Production and Processing - Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

Skills for General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Majors

The following list of skills has been highlighted as some of the most essential for careers related to general cooking & related culinary arts:

• Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Management of Personnel Resources - Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.

Abilities for General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Majors

A major in general cooking & related culinary arts will prepare for your careers in which the following abilities are important:

• Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

Amount of Education Required for Careers Related to General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts

Some careers associated with general cooking & related culinary arts require an advanced degree while some may not even require a bachelor’s. Whatever the case may be, pursuing more education usually means that more career options will be available to you.

Find out what the typical degree level is for general cooking & related culinary arts careers below.

Education Level	Percentage of Workers
Less than a High School Diploma	14.2%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)	46.2%
Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production)	16.0%
Some College Courses	7.0%
Associate’s Degree (or other 2-year degree)	11.9%
Bachelor’s Degree	4.6%
First Professional Degree - awarded for completion of a program that: requires at least 2 years of college work before entrance into the program, includes a total of at least 6 academic years of work to complete, and provides all remaining academic requirements to begin practice in a profession.	0.7%
Post-Doctoral Training	0.8%

Online General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts Programs

The following table lists the number of programs by degree level, along with how many schools offered online courses in the field.

Degree Level	Colleges Offering Programs	Colleges Offering Online Classes
Certificate (Less Than 1 Year)	0	0
Certificate (1-2 years)	102	0
Certificate (2-4 Years)	0	0
Associate’s Degree	89	0
Bachelor’s Degree	0	0
Post-Baccalaureate	0	0
Master’s Degree	0	0
Post-Master’s	0	0
Doctor’s Degree (Research)	0	0
Doctor’s Degree (Professional Practice)	0	0
Doctor’s Degree (Other)	0	0

Majors Related to General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts

You may also be interested in one of the following majors related to general cooking & related culinary arts.

Major	Number of Grads
Culinary Arts/Chef Training	10,286
Baking & Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef	5,508
Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management/Manager	1,291
Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant	804
Other Culinary Arts & Related Services	382
Culinary Science/Culinology	278
Institutional Food Workers	214
Bartending/Bartender	194
Food Service, Waiter/Waitress, & Dining Room Management/Manager	80
Meat Cutting/Meat Cutter	54
Wine Steward/Sommelier	3

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• College Scorecard
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers First Quarter 2020
• Image Credit: By U.S. Army Europe Images under License

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