1. Prep. Set. Serve.
Career Exploration
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2. Module Objectives
Explore careers and career paths in the Food & Beverage Services industry
Line Cook – Culinary Arts
Food & Beverage Server
Discover and assess our transferable skills
Discuss competencies required for success as a Line Cook and Food & Beverage Server
Map our skills and interests to guide our learning and employment search

3. Line Cook Overview
Line cooks organize, prepare, and assemble hot and cold food, in preparation for it to be served to customers.
They do some cleaning and caring for kitchen equipment, tools and machinery.
They possess the knowledge and skills to work efficiently and quickly with little supervision.

4. Line Cook Example

5. Food & Beverage Server Overview
Requests orders from and serves food and beverages to guests.
They are very familiar with the foods and beverages that are served at the establishment in which they work.
They have good knowledge of Customer Service skills. Are able to work efficiently and unobtrusively around guests.

6. FBS Occupational Overview

7. Transferable Skills
Willingness to Learn Commitment Dependability/Reliability Team-work Communication Skills Co-operation Self Management Motivation to Achieve Problem Solving Ability
Analytical Ability
Flexibility/Adaptability
Taking Initiative
Summarising Key Issues
Logical Thinking
Numeracy
Coping with Deadlines
Time Management
Research Skills

8. Transferable Skills
With your transferable skills, employers see you as a very valuable source of skilled labour
Once you have acquired a skill, they know you have the capacity to transfer it into their organization and to develop it further
In your résumé and at an interview, employers look for evidence that you have the skills they are looking for

9. Mapping Our Interests Interests Line Cook Skills Organic gardening
Identify types of produce
Prepare salads

10. Mapping Our Skills My Transferable Skills
Examples of how I’ve demonstrated this skill in the past
Line Cook or Server Skills
Positive attitude
Willingness to accept new and additional responsibilities when I worked at… by…
Demonstrate a positive attitude

11. Workplace Training Selection
Select an occupation for workplace training
Line Cook
Food & Beverage Server

12. How Others See You

13. Birds of a Feather Involve Me! Show Me You Care !
Be Brief, Be Bright, Be Gone!
Spare No Details!

14. Driver Competitive Self starter Dominant Curious Solution driver
Risk taker
Bold
Independent
Easily bored
Decisive

15. Analytical
Discipline Cautious Loyal Private High standards Accurate Logical Accommodating Careful Organized

16. Expressive
Optimistic Amiable Outgoing Big picture person Friendly Confident Verbal Likes variety Strong communicator Not detail driven

17. Patient
Detailed Caring Dependable Systematic Patient Objective Good listener Steady Persistent Counsellor