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Chef Trial Shifts – 12 Steps To Winning Big

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As a chef recruiter, I always appreciate when a restaurant offers chef trial shifts to candidates of mine. A chef can showcase their skills while using the event as an opportunity to determine if the restaurant/hotel/caterer is a good fit for them and their career goals. It’s also, equally, an opportunity for a client to “check out the goods” and help them determine if the chef is a good fit for their business and to see how they fit in. Either way the workflow towards chef jobs these days is increasingly likely to encompases trial shifts.

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Don’t Make These 8 Chef Job Hunting Mistakes

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In the post pandemic or mass staff shortages a lot of hospitality professionals, especially chefs, have forgotten what a “buyers market” in jobs feels like. Well I’m going to stick my neck out a bit and predict that this huge undersupply in staff isn’t here to stay. The time to care about whether you make chef job hunting mistakes, unfortunately, is soon to be upon you. So now might be a good time to make sure you’re not one of the losers in the

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The Most Brutally Honest Chef Job Advert Ever

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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. Speaking of honesty, go here if you’d like to know how do chef recruitment agencies work?

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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Chefs to Saudi Arabia – Mission Possible….Just About

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Chef Job Trials – What Are They Good For?

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

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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.

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Chefs – How Long Should You Stay in Your Job?

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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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Employers – Find Chefs

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You manage a catering business & you need to find chefs Our focus is on finding chefs. We don't have any other focus, just chefs. You can't know everybody - if you did, finding the right chef would be easy. We find chefs, we know where the best chefs work and we know how to approach them. We know which chefs are capable of which jobs and we know at what stage they're at … [Read More...]

Chefs – Find Jobs

Chefs Find A Job

Welcome To The Chef Recruitment Agency! Finding the right chef's job demands the same care and attention you bring to the kitchen every day. We recognize that chefs warrant specialist recruitment attention when it comes to negotiating their future job moves. That's why our business is staffed by recruitment specialists with backgrounds in both catering and executive … [Read More...]

How Chef Recruitment Agencies Work

What is a chef recruitment agency? Once more commonly referred to as employment agencies, recruitment agencies act as the conduit for employers and chefs to meet, often confidentially. But how do chef recruitment agencies work for chefs? Put at the most basic level, they in fact work on behalf of employers to find suitable candidates to fill their vacancies. Many employers use them, … [Read More...]