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Overview
Chocolatiers make confectionery products with chocolate by examining, feeling and tasting ground chocolate paste before it becomes finished goods.
In job descriptions, look for chocolate paste, colour, texture, taste, confectionery production, recipes, tempering, hygiene, quality checks and product specifications.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Chocolatier work is centred on chocolate paste, confectionery batches and finished sweets. The role checks colour, texture and taste, then adjusts handling so each chocolate product follows its recipe and specification.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include judging chocolate consistency, tasting defects, weighing ingredients, tempering, moulding, hygiene routines, recipe discipline and recording batch results. Some work leans toward artisan pieces, while other work is production focused.
Salary context
Salary context depends on whether the chocolatier works in a small confectionery shop, hotel kitchen, food factory or product development setting. Responsibility for recipes, batch quality, staff training and production timing matters more than the title alone. This guide does not provide salary amounts.
Career paths
Career paths can move from confectionery production or pastry work into specialist chocolate making, product development, quality control, production lead roles or small-business ownership. A portfolio of products and reliable batch work can matter.
Good to know
Read vacancies for the type of chocolate work named. Useful adverts distinguish hand finishing from factory batches, and mention tempering, moulding, tasting, hygiene records, ingredient preparation and who signs off product quality.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Manufacture of cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionery
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is confectioner.
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About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
10.82Manufacture of cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionery
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Bakers, pastry-cooks and confectionery makers (7512)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/35f62568-eb4e-4a09-9d83-ecc73116f94c |
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| ESCO code | 7512.2 |
| ISCO group | 7512 |
| Concept type | Occupation |