Workforce Recruitment Resources

Thousands of baking industry careers are available at BakingWorks.org.  This industry careers site offers a library of career development and resume-building tools as well as access to thousands of job and internship opportunities and the ability for candidates to upload resumes so hiring managers can contact them directly. ABA Members receive special rates for posting their available jobs for thousands of monthly website visitors to see. 

The baking industry has many career paths that all work together to create and deliver baked goods across the country. The baking industry career path guide helps ABA members and the baking industry communicate how potential and existing workers can grow their careers. 

The baking industry is proud to employ veterans and military spouses from all branches of service. ABA, as part of the Baking Industry Alliance, partners with the USO Pathfinder® Transition program to help connect transitioning service members and military spouses with baking industry careers. 

The Baking Industry’s Frontline Workforce Landscape study, produced in 2020, studies commercial baking and supplier companies' investments in frontline workforce engagement and career development as well as the support of their local communities. Delivering on a key initiative from ABA’s Strategic Plan to promote and grow the baking industry, this study provides important data that reinforces the baking industry’s role as an essential manufacturing employer.

The American Bakers Association (ABA) and the American Society of Baking (ASB) commissioned the Workforce Gap in U.S. Commercial Baking: Trends, Challenges and Solutions study to gain an understanding of the current and expected skills gap in the industry, and most importantly, what can be done to fill it.