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Cooks, Restaurant: where your skills can take you

Prepare, season, and cook dishes such as soups, meats, vegetables, or desserts in restaurants. May order supplies, keep records and accounts, price items on menu, or plan menu.

Most common qualification in Australia: Year 12 or below (46% of workers, 2021 Census) · Australian median pay for Cooks: A$74,500 full-time (Jobs and Skills Australia)

Job names and descriptions on this page come from the US government's job list (O*NET). Some use American words, for example "elementary school" for primary school.

Three moves that use what a cooks, restaurant 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 Preparation Workers

Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count)

🧰 Your current job already uses managing your own time, working in step with other people, reading people and weighing up the options.

🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is high school or less (72%).

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Perform a variety of food preparation duties other than cooking, such as preparing cold foods and shellfish, slicing meat, and brewing coffee or tea.

Cooks, Short Order

Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count)

🧰 Your current job already uses managing your own time, working in step with other people, sound judgement and reading people.

🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is high school or less (81%).

🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗

Prepare and cook to order a variety of foods that require only a short preparation time. May take orders from customers and serve patrons at counters or tables.

Dishwashers

Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count)

🧰 Your current job already uses managing your own time, working in step with other people, reading people and watching gauges and readings.

🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is high school or less (99%).

🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗

Clean dishes, kitchen, food preparation equipment, or utensils.

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Data sources and licences

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.

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