Cooks, Private Household

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Certified Personal Chef (CPC), Personal Chef, Private Chef

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What they do:
Prepare meals in private homes. Includes personal chefs.
On the job, you would:
  • Plan menus according to employers' needs and diet restrictions.
  • Stock, organize, and clean kitchens and cooking utensils.
  • Cool, package, label, and freeze foods for later consumption and provide instructions for reheating.

Knowledge

Business

  • customer service
  • sales and marketing

Manufactured or Agricultural Goods

  • food production

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Skills

Basic Skills

  • thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
  • figuring out how to use new ideas or things

Resource Management

  • managing equipment and materials
  • managing your time and the time of other people

Abilities

Hand and Finger Use

  • hold or move items with your hands
  • keep your arm or hand steady

Ideas and Logic

  • notice when problems happen
  • order or arrange things

Verbal

  • listen and understand what people say
  • read and understand what is written

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include creating, designing, and making your own rules.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Dependability
  • Integrity
  • Attention to Detail
  • Independence
  • Cooperation
  • Concern for Others

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Accounting software

  • Cost tracking software
  • Intuit QuickBooks Hot Technology

Video creation and editing software

  • YouTube

Data base user interface and query software

  • APPCA Personal Chef Office
  • Cooking e-books

Education

Education: (rated 3 of 5)
certificate after high school or
high school diploma/GED
usually needed

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