This comprehensive course is designed to provide students with the wide range of skills and knowledge required not only to become competent as a qualified chef or cook but also to gain a range of supervisory or leadership skills that will enhance graduate employability and future opportunities as a chef. Students are required to complete the Certificate III in Commercial Cookery units in their first year. Throughout the first year, students develop extensive practical food preparation cooking and presentation skills. In second year, student will develop kitchen management and leadership skills.<br><br>This certificate is designed to prepare students for a career as a Senior Chef or Chef de Cuisine and offers advanced skills in the areas of kitchen supervision, advanced food preparation and cookery. This includes staff supervision skills, stock control process, financial management and advanced catering skills. These skills are developed through a range of face to face theory delivery, practical training sessions in commercial hotel kitchens and industry work placement programs.<br><br>Students are required to undertake industry workplace training in various kitchen settings, such as in restaurants, hotels, clubs, pubs, cafes, cafeterias and coffee shops. At the end of the course, students are expected to operate independently or with limited guidance from others and use discretion to solve non-routine problems in a commercial kitchen.