How to become a Chef
Official title: Chefs
Supervises and plans cooking in food service venues, and designs menus and creates new dishes.
Main tasks
- Plan and design recipes and menus, and estimate food and labour costs
- Discuss cooking and kitchen work with managers, dietitians, cooks and service staff
- Supervise and coordinate cooks and other staff preparing food
Ways in
- Technical college: Technical and vocational college programme. Universities of science and technology and junior colleges run departments in related fields: hospitality and catering (1013). Departments in academic year 114 (2025-26): four-year technical bachelor's (四技) 53, two-year technical bachelor's (二技) 13, five-year junior college (五專) 15, two-year junior college (二專) 5. Fields matched to the occupation by Peernovo.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Demand for Legal, social and cultural jobs is projected at about 190,000 in 2024 and about 216,000 in 2030. (+13.7%)
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a Chef?
Ways in include: Technical and vocational college programme.
Is a Chef a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 13.7% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of a Chef?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026