How to qualify as a Chef

Nov 28, 2022
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Study Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery

Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery is most suited course for becoming a chef. In this course Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery, students gain the specialised skills and knowledge required to join the kitchen as a chef.

Course overview

The Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery provides the technical skills and advanced knowledge required to join a kitchen brigade or continue with further specialised study.

According to the Australian Government's Job Outlook service, the number of people working as chefs grew very strongly over the past five years and is expected to continue to grow in the future. This very large occupation is predicted to create around 81,000 job openings over the next five years.

This course equips you to work within the kitchen at a supervisory level. You will gain hands on culinary experience in the preparation of appetisers, salads, stocks, sauces, soups, seafood, meat, poultry, breads, pastries and cakes. Develop your supervisory skills and learn how to manage diversity in the workplace, implement sustainable practices, provide leadership, manage finances, and coordinate cooking operations.

Successful completion of this course will enable you to enter the workforce as a chef or chef de partie.

Job Ready Program (Skill Assessment)

Trade recognition Australia abbreviated as TRA runs a program called a TRA job ready program that helps to check the capabilities and skill of an international student in an Australian workspace. It’s a skill assessment program for those international students who have completed their degree and want to work in Australia. The job ready program visa also helps one in applying for permanent skilled visas. Also, this program helps one to gain experience in working a real Australian workplace related to his or her occupation. It’s a four-step program. Each of this step is assessed by an appointed assessor. Through this program, one can demonstrate his or her in the field they belong to. To get started with the job ready program one must consider the following things:

First of all, one should make sure that whether the job ready program outcome is suitable for the visa subclass he or she is intended to apply for or not.

If one is applying for a temporary skill shortage visa subclass 482 then he or she must check whether their occupation lies in the relevant occupational list or not.

If the above-mentioned things are cleared out then one should start the process of the job ready program visa by creating an account on TRA online portal. One has to apply and pay for every step of the program through this account.

Four steps of the job ready program

Step 1: Provisional Skill Assessment The first step of the job-ready program is provisional skill assessment. It is done to check the genuineness of your qualification and employment in Australian institutions THE APPLICATION PROCESS FOR PSA

You have to get registered online on job-ready program website by creating an account there

Pay the Provisional Skill Assessment fee

Submit your application and print your assessment summary

Email your assessment summary along with all the documents

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR PSA

Applicant must have a study visa to study in Australia as an international student

Should be qualified in a relevant occupation verified by CRICOS training organization

Must have completed 360 hours of employment at a minimum in Australia in the related occupation

Step 2: Job Ready Employment Job ready employments program JRE helps to sharpen one’s skills by actually working experience in an Australian work environment. The applicant has to complete at minimum 1725 hours within a year in a work environment approved by TRA PROCESS FOR JRE

Get registered at the website

Submit the details of the employer

Print the JRE summary and email with all the relevant documents

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Must have positive PSA result

One must already have a visa with full work rights or have applied for a temporary graduate visa with the validity of at least 12 months

Eligible employment in the TRA relevant occupation

Step 3: Job ready workplace assessment In this step that is job ready workspace assessment JRWA, the assessing authorities will test whether your working capabilities are satisfying the needs of the required skill in the workplace or not. This assessment is done at your workspace by the assessor authorized by TRA. This assessment will actually test if you are performing all your duties listed in your job description and how are you performing them. PROCESS FOR JRWA

Receive confirmation of JRWA eligibility from TRA

Pay the fee

Print the JRWA summary and get it signed by your employer

Email the summary with all the required documents.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR JRWA

The applicant must be working in a TRA approved workspace

Evidence should be provided proving that the applicant is working on a paid employment for 863 hours at least in the course 6 months from the start date of the JRE program.

Step 4: Job Ready Final Assessment When you are successfully done with step 1, 2 and 3 then you are eligible to apply for JRFA job-ready final assessment. This is the final assessment of job ready program and with the positive outcome of this final assessment, you will be provided with the result of job ready program. This result can be helpful in your General Skilled Migration visa application and others as well. PROCESS FOR JRFA

Pay the fee

Submit the details and print the summary

Email the summary with the required documents.

ELIGIBILITY OF JRFA

The applicant must have completed step 1, 2, and 3 successfully

Should have provided the evidence that he or she has completed at least 1725 paid employment hours in a TRA approved workspace in a course of 12 months.

Due to the high demand for people who work in the hospitality industry, there are many ways for qualified cooks and chefs to get into PR.

Also, the Australian Government’s plan to get skilled workers to move to regional areas to make up for a lack of skilled workers in these areas has made it possible for many PRs to study, live, and work in regional Australia.

Cook, Pastry Cook, Café, or Restaurant Manager are on the Short Term Skilled Occupation List (STSOL) and qualify for SC190 or SC491 visa.

Chefs are on the Medium- and Long-Term Strategic Skills List (MLTSSL) and eligible for VISA types SC189, SC190 or SC491 visa.