Table Talk

"When I go into a supermarket, I look at the ingredients of a product and I can tell exactly what something is going to taste like," says Angela Trofymova. "It's boring shopping with me." Angela has one of those jobs that sounds too good to be true. She is Group Testing Manager for the Good Housekeeping Institute. That means she is in charge of the institute's world-famous taste tests, which are so renowned they have a huge impact on sales and trends. In this episode of the Career Conversations podcast series, we find out exactly what's involved in running taste testing sessions, and what a typical day looks like for someone in a role like Angela's. Her route to the job has not been simple. She's held many roles within the food industry, and outside of it. At one point she worked for a company where things really didn't click. "That completely depleted my energy," she says. "It made me feel inadequate and I felt like I didn't know what I was doing." But the truth is, things just hadn't wo