Chefs and Head Cooks: where your skills can take you
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.
Most common qualification in Australia: a certificate or diploma (60% of workers, 2021 Census) · Australian median pay for Chefs: A$74,000 full-time (Jobs and Skills Australia)
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Three moves that use what a chefs and head cook already knows
Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.
Food Service Managers
🧰 Your current job already uses working in step with other people, managing people, reading people and looking after customers and clients.
🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in Australia is Year 12 or below (34%).
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Plan, direct, or coordinate activities of an organization or department that serves food and beverages.
First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers
In national shortage — employers actively looking (Jobs and Skills Australia, 2025)
🧰 Your current job already uses working in step with other people, managing people, teaching other people and looking after customers and clients.
🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is high school or less (97%).
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Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in preparing and serving food.
Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
🧰 Your current job already uses working in step with other people, managing people, reading people and managing your own time.
🎓 A degree. We have no qualification data for this job. Check what it asks for with a course provider or an employer.
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Plan, direct, or coordinate the management or operation of farms, ranches, greenhouses, aquacultural operations, nurseries, timber tracts, or other agricultural establishments. May hire, train, and supervise farm workers or contract for services to carry out the day-to-day activities of the managed operation. May engage in or supervise planting, cultivating, harvesting, and financial and marketing activities.
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O*NET 30.3 — This service incorporates information from the O*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JobMatcha has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
ABS ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update — Australian occupation tags are derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update correspondence tables (ABS, © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 4.0), bridged to U.S. occupations via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics SOC crosswalks (public domain). Only high-confidence (>= 0.8) one-to-one chains are shown; other mappings are withheld as 'Australian data unavailable'.
Australian pay and shortage lines: Jobs and Skills Australia.