"did you know that baristas are valuable? After all, textual research is so expensive! " Is the barista certificate really useful?

Recently, the backstage can receive a lot of questions about the barista certificate every day. As the boutique coffee culture has gradually spread to everyone's life, being a barista and opening a coffee shop has become an ideal career / ideal life for many friends. But in the era when everyone can make coffee, how to make their own coffee / open a coffee shop can "stand out" in the ordinary, the certificate has become the first way that everyone can think of.

Is ① textual research really useful? That must be useful.

Just like all kinds of examinations from small to big, the standardized examination system allows everyone to understand their own abilities and let them know their own shortcomings and deficiencies. The purpose of the course is to give people more knowledge or skills, and to test whether you have learned the contents of these courses. Therefore, the discussion is not about whether there is a certificate, but whether the course before the examination is useful to you.

Textual research is like a stepping stone to the door. no matter which level it is in a corresponding area, it gives you the opportunity to learn the basic principles / to operate more regularly. In other words, the examination is a kind of benchmark, giving everyone a reference value.

Such as the Q-Grade sensory test. Senses are very subjective, and everyone can have different views, feelings and understandings in the same cup of coffee. The course provides you with a reference value so that you can make judgments within the same range of reference and reduce sensory disputes that vary greatly.

The ② barista certificate can help you improve yourself better, but it doesn't prove how good you are.

Textual research is a basic competency test, it does not prove how good you are, it can only prove that you have learned and can pass the course model examination. But in reality, the situation that baristas have to face is ever-changing, and it can't be as "stable" as the exams in the training class.

So it doesn't mean that after the exam, you really learned it. The certificate is just a piece of paper, and the golden point is really yourself, so after learning it, you should continue to improve your coffee specialty and learn more coffee knowledge.

People who are really good will not stay on "I have passed the examination". They will continue to learn more about coffee, how it works, and expand outward, while they have a certain foundation, so that their vision and goal will not only stay on making coffee. Coffee is not a big business, but it is definitely not just inside the bar, maybe the world outside the bar is worth exploring and innovating.

Should ③ do some research before applying for a barista?

Not necessarily. This can be chosen according to the actual situation of the individual, not all coffee shops require baristas to have a barista license. After all, the cost of taking these certificates is not low, and many certificates cannot be skipped to the next grade, with a set of 10,000 to 20,000. The cost is quite high. And it is not textual research, the salary will certainly be higher than the average barista, mainly depends on the coffee shop owner's consideration for the future.

Does ④ need textual research before opening a coffee shop?

Not necessarily. For ordinary consumers, it does not matter whether the person in charge of research or not, because what we most want to drink is coffee with stable taste and quality and a real price (not to ask everyone to fight for a low price). If you don't know anything, but want to open a coffee shop, you can learn the relevant process and improve yourself, but before opening a coffee shop, you must make sure that your products are stable and acceptable to the public.

For those consumers who have some knowledge and knowledge of coffee, it is even less important for the director / baristas to take the exam or not. Because the real coffee drinker will not worry about whether this person is good or not, nor will he ask a bunch of things that he does not have, because he can drink it. If the drinker thinks it is good or worth it, you will see that ta often appears and will naturally become your regular customer.

If a guest mentioned / exchanged some optimization ways with you during the chat, it is actually worth referring to. We can't meet everyone's taste needs, but we can constantly improve and optimize our understanding of coffee bean roasting / coffee extraction. Sometimes some of the guests' suggestions may be more "valuable" than the theories and knowledge learned in the training class and in the exam.

What are the current international coffee certificates certified by ⑤?

At present, the most authoritative barista certificate in the coffee industry is issued by SCA (World Fine Coffee Association). It is basically universal, and it is also the most recognized barista certificate in the world. The SCA barista certificate is divided into three levels in junior high school. The examination for junior baristas is relatively simple, and the course is based on basic theory and practical knowledge.

If you have worked in a coffee shop for a certain period of time, basically do not need to take a certification course, go directly to take the SCA junior certificate. If you feel that your coffee knowledge and operation skills have reached a certain level, you can also skip the primary level and directly take the SCA Intermediate Certificate ~ SCA Intermediate Certificate can skip the primary exam, but the SCA Advanced Certificate must first obtain the Intermediate Barista Certificate.

Q-Grader is one of the coffee bean quality appraisers certified by the Coffee quality Institute CQI (Coffee Quality Institute). It belongs to a branch of the SCA education module and is currently the most expensive coffee certification.

Unlike the SCA curriculum, CQI is more inclined to identify the quality of raw beans, so in addition to Q-Grader (Arabica Coffee Variety appraiser), there will be R-Grader (Robusta Coffee Variety appraiser). If you just want to be an ordinary barista / open an ordinary coffee shop, you really don't have to take the Q test.

Does ⑥ country have Coffee Vocational skills Certificate?

In 2016, the State Council cancelled 61 professional qualifications, including baristas. Until 2019, the social professional skill grade recognition began to be carried out, and the professional qualification of Chinese baristas was carried out in the form of government-led and third-party evaluation institutions. The popular understanding is that government departments no longer participate in supervising the production of all kinds of vocational skill level certificates across the country, but are independently printed and issued by third-party evaluation institutions.

At present, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the people's Republic of China has released the national vocational skills standard for baristas (draft for soliciting opinions) on its website, and it is expected that the barista certification will be reissued next year. If you return, it may become the most valuable coffee skill certificate in China, but it may not be recognized by the global coffee industry.

⑦ on the differences before and after the Reform of National Vocational qualification Certificate

Differences: 1. The relevant departments of the Ministry of Human and Social Affairs of the new version of the certificate will no longer be stamped, but will be uniformly stamped with the official seal of the third-party identification and certification body. 2. The cover of the new version of the certificate will no longer have the national emblem, and the name of the third-party authentication and certification institution will be printed on the cover. 3. The examination form may be online or offline, and shall be examined and approved by the relevant regulatory department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Affairs. 4. the certificate after the reform is collectively referred to as the vocational skill grade certificate, and the certificate before the reform is collectively referred to as the national vocational qualification certificate.

The same point: certificates can be found on the website of vocational skill level officers designated by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Affairs of China. The certificate has the same effect before and after the reform, it is universal throughout the country, and it is exempt from examination for life.

No matter what grade of barista certificate you take, the value does not lie in the certificate itself, but in that the whole learning process brings you more meaningful and valuable things. If you really love it, you can face it seriously and do everything well, and you can be a good barista without a barista certificate.

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