Food science‐based graduates are a significant proportion of the United Kingdom (UK) food and drink industry's workforce. Aside from technical standards, there is no cohesive competency framework to support key stakeholders; employers, students, and degree providers. Clarity of desirable competencies for the range of graduate opportunities available would enable students to undertake effective career planning and personal development, and educators to refine programs to satisfy market needs. Using a previously developed language tool, a Likert style, industry‐wide online survey in UK and Republic of Ireland (ROI) was conducted involving 218 participants from a broad range of food science‐related employment areas, evaluated by a combination of descriptive and multivariate data analysis. The survey outcomes indicate types of desirable competencies in a food science graduate. The tailored competency framework, Competencies for Food Graduate Careers (CFGC), is a set of 48 elements across eight themes, outlining which are desirable for each of 14 typical initial graduate roles. To enhance the quality of “oven‐ready” graduates entering the food industry, it is recommended CFGC be used for careers education and competency development in higher education. The framework is aimed to have further applications for job specification development and also to improve awareness of careers in the food industry.

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为英国食品科学毕业生开发专业能力框架

以食品科学为基础的毕业生在英国（UK）食品和饮料行业的劳动力中占很大比例。除技术标准外，没有凝聚力的能力框架来支持关键利益相关者。雇主，学生和学位提供者。明确提供的各种毕业生机会所需的能力，将使学生能够进行有效的职业规划和个人发展，并使教育工作者能够完善计划以满足市场需求。使用先前开发的语言工具，在英国和爱尔兰共和国进行了一次Likert风格的行业在线在线调查，涉及来自食品科学相关就业领域的218名参与者，并结合描述性和多元分析进行了评估数据分析。调查结果表明了食品科学专业毕业生理想的能力类型。量身定制的能力框架，即食品毕业生职业能力（CFGC），由八个主题中的48个元素组成，概述了14个典型的最初毕业生角色中的每个角色所需要的。为了提高进入食品行业的“烤箱就绪”毕业生的质量，建议将CFGC用于高等教育的职业教育和能力发展。该框架旨在进一步开发工作规范，并提高食品行业的职业意识。为了提高进入食品行业的“烤箱就绪”毕业生的质量，建议将CFGC用于高等教育的职业教育和能力发展。该框架旨在进一步开发工作规范，并提高食品行业的职业意识。为了提高进入食品行业的“烤箱就绪”毕业生的质量，建议将CFGC用于高等教育的职业教育和能力发展。该框架旨在进一步开发工作规范，并提高食品行业的职业意识。