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The Most Brutally Honest Chef Job Advert Ever

May 29, 2015 By David Hall

A restaurateur/chef in Glasgow (that’s in Scotland) has attracted lots of attention by posting a Chef Job Ad that holds absolutely nothing back. He held so little back that the site hosting the Chef Job Ad [note link goes to our job board, we have to get a plug in for ourselves somewhere along the way too – the link to the actual chef job advert in context is provided toward the bottom of the article] has forced him to censor the ad.

Even censored though, the ad is eye wateringly honest. No chef turning up for an interview at this place could ever say he hadn’t be warned, and well warned, in advance about the, ahem, job challenges which lay ahead. Keep reading Chefs because the juicy details are coming. Anyway the job ad was for a Sous Chef and no amount of meta commentary by me can ever do justice to the advert itself, which we’ll be getting to very soon, that’s a promise.

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Filed Under: Chef Jobs, Chef Shortage, Jobs Boards Tagged With: Catering Recruitment, Humour

Chefs to Saudi Arabia – Mission Possible….Just About

July 2, 2014 By David Hall

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia despite some drawbacks, more about this later, is home to thousands of well trained chefs. Those chefs who’ve traveled Saudi for work are, with few exceptions, there for one reason, money. There are other potential ancillary benefits too. The Kingdom boasts many superb luxury destinations and prestige restaurant brands. Alcohol may be off the menu but everything else your heart desires is very much on the menu.

hotel saudi arabia photo [Read more…]

Filed Under: Chef Jobs, Immigration Tagged With: Chef.Jobs, Saudi Arabia

Want A Great Chef – What’s Great About Your Job?

April 20, 2014 By David Hall

Your ideal head chef, anyone’s ideal head chef, will have the culinary talent of Heston Blumenthal, the strategic abilities of Carl Von Clausewitz, the patience of Gautama Buddha, the financial acumen of Warren Buffett, the physical insurance of Roald Amundsen and the image management chops of Donald Draper. It would be nice to have a Chef like this, but you probably won’t.

Chef Blumenthal

Chef Blumenthal is probably not coming to a kitchen near you anytime soon

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Filed Under: Chef Jobs, Chefs Employment Tagged With: Catering Recruitment, Chef Shortage, Expert Tips

Chef Job Trials – What Are They Good For?

December 1, 2013 By David Hall

Can you ask that Chef when would it suit him (or her) to come in for a Chef job trial? That was the sentence which told this budding, as I was then, Chef Recruiter that things had changed quite a lot in the chef job game since I was last working in kitchens. Since then as a Chef Recruiter I’ve set up countless chef job trials and with one exception these have been at the request of a client. As a Chef Recruiter I quite like these trials as they’re almost always a positive signpost in any chef recruitment assignment. Clients usually only ask Chefs in on trial that they’ve a serious interest in and often this leads to a level of comfort being established between Chef and prospective employer conducive to a job offer being made. This we like.

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Filed Under: Chef Jobs Tagged With: Job Trials

Chefs are you reading? – Recruitment Scams, How To Spot Them!

November 24, 2013 By David Hall

If there is such a place as Chef Jobs hell (aside from the one I inhabit) then there’s a special place reserved there for a certain Sir Chirr Rouchael. To western ears, especially those of us born and raised in the Anglosphere, that might sound like an unlikely name to choose when cooking up a catering & hospitality recruitment scam. You’d assume, wouldn’t you, that any recruitment scammer or shakedown merchant wouldn’t want you to pause, for long enough, while reading his  “job pitch” to wonder to yourself about the peculiarities of their fictional name.

Chef Recruit Scams Banner

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Filed Under: Chef Jobs, Immigration Tagged With: Chefs

Chefs – How Long Should You Stay in Your Job?

April 17, 2013 By David Hall

There’s no “one” correct answer to how long a chef should stay in a given chef job. What’s acceptable and what’s beneficial, to the chef and the employer, will be different according to context and the stage each chef is at in his or her career. Move job too often and your value as a chef will fall, your Chef CV will become ragged. Employers don’t and won’t want to have to go back to square one and look for your replacement in six months time (exception being seasonal operations or fixed term contracts). On the other hand stay too long in the same kitchen and you risk a couple of things, the first is being typecast i.e. he/she is an Accor Chef, or a IHG Chef, or a Hilton Chef. The other risk is that you become a prisoner of your employer. They’ll realise that at a certain point you long passed the optimal time to move and that making an advantageous move would now be very difficult for you. You’re theirs, and all that implies, and the one thing strongly implied here is that you’re going to be taken for granted, and that’s seldom got much in the way of an upside.

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Filed Under: Chef Jobs Tagged With: Expert Tips

How Chef’s Years in Kitchens can Wreck their CV’s

November 1, 2012 By David Hall

A very common type of phrase which we regularly see on chef’s curriculum vitae’s is a variation of the following: “Seasoned pro” or “seasoned hospitality professional” or “a chef with more than 20 years experience.” So, you might well ask what’s the problem with that? And the answer is that there need not be any problem, but in some circumstances it is a problem and I would like to tell you why, moreover I’d like to tell you what you can do about it.

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Filed Under: Chef Jobs Tagged With: Catering Recruitment, Expert Tips

Chef Scout: Our Chef Recommendation Engine

March 8, 2012 By David Hall

Recommend a Chef to Chef Recruiters

Go ahead Recommend a Chef to us, it’ll Make Our Day

Chances are a chef recommendation will make their day too, maybe not today but someday. You see not all chefs display their glory in full view, many are the unsung heros who stand behind [Read more…]

Filed Under: Chef Jobs Tagged With: Catering Recruitment, Chef Recommendations, Headhunting

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