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Specialization, master's certificate, process technologist, academy education, and the path to your own business
A journeyman's certificate is not a final station — it is a foundation. When you are qualified many paths open depending on whether you want to excel in the craft become a leader take the independent route or study further. Here is an overview of what you can build on.
You don't need a whole new education to develop. Through working life education courses (AMU) there are shorter courses where you can get better at specific techniques — for example in chocolate, desserts, sourdough or particular product types. It is an effective way to keep yourself professionally sharp and keep up when new methods and trends emerge.
With experience you can become a foreman or production manager where you are responsible for planning and training new staff. Want your own business you need to be able to run a company beyond the craft: economics purchasing personnel marketing and sales. Many take courses in exactly that before they open their own. Baker and pastry chef mastership is a proud tradition and it is fully possible to go from journeyman to master with your own shop.
A journeyman's certificate can also be the springboard to further education. Two paths that lie close to the trade are process technologist and service economist — short advanced educations where you combine your practical background with more theory about production food operation and management. If you go further from there academic and diploma educations in for example management or food can build on.
| If you will... | So you can, for example, choose |
|---|---|
| Become sharper at the craft | AMU courses and specialization |
| Drive or open a business | Courses in management, economics and sales; path to master |
| Read further with theory | Process technologist or service economist |
| Build even more on top | Academy and diploma education |
There is no right or wrong way — it is about what you dream of. Do you want to become the best pastry chef in town specialization is the way. Do you want your own business you need to learn how to run a company. Do you want to work with development and production on a larger scale a higher education might be the answer. The nice thing is that the journeyman's certificate keeps doors open all the way.
“Your journeyman certificate is not the end of your education — it's the start of everything you can choose after.”