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Chefs! Don’t Doctor Your CV

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Is there a Chef, whether in the hunt for a job or not, who doesn’t think their CV could be a little better with some subtle surgery? If there are, then my guess is they account for a very small percentage of active chefs. I’ll pin my own colours to the mast right now and say that it’s always better to resist any temptation to doctor a CV or Resume. I’ll now spend the rest of this post justifying my very rigid and inflexible position on the matter. If you can’t be bothered reading to the end then it amounts to this,

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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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Catering Recruitment Agencies: Uses and Abuses 1

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You decide you’re going to use a Catering Recruitment Agency to fill your most recent chef job vacancy. Before picking up the phone a thought hits you…why not use several Catering Recruitment Agencies and let the best man, or woman, win? In fact why not do that and also put out a bit of advertising of your own while you’re at it? At first blush this seems like a very reasonable and sound approach to take. If your advertising doesn’t bring in an acceptable candidate then at least one of those recruitment agencies is bound to deliver, right?

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Recruiting Generation Y Chefs: What You Need To Know!

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You may not have given much consideration to recruiting “Generation Y” Chefs. Maybe you don’t know what characteristics Generation Y Chefs are believed to have, never mind why this should matter, to you, when it comes to recruiting chefs. I am here to tell you that it matters very much and if you wish to recruit and retain Chefs in 2013, and onwards, its time for you to get properly clued in. What’s so distinctive about Generation Y Chefs, and what makes them tick? Indeed what is it about them that makes it worth the trouble of writing a blog post about them,

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Chefs: How to Know When You’re Being Headhunted

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Headhunting chefs sounds like a very aggressive, if not indeed sinister pursuit. The headhunter pursues their quarry, meanwhile the chef innocently gets on with their job, time passes, then one day an e-mail arrives, or a phone call comes through and the chef is asked if he might know a chef suitable for a particular job, and then the job details follow.

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

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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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Several Catering Recruitment Agencies or One?

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Catering Recruitment Agencies, unless you tell them otherwise, assume that when you give them a hiring assignment, to find them a chef for a job vacancy you need to fill, that you’re also probably dealing with another agency too, maybe several. The reasons why we assume this are straightforward: we see remarkably similar chef job specs on the Job-boards of websites of other agencies, the chefs we approach, at least some of them, tell us that they’ve been contacted by other agencies about the job or someone else slips us “the word.”

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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

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You've Come To The Right Catering 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 … [Read More...]

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You're here because you want to recruit the best culinary talent and have heard we're the people who can get them. Or perhaps you're a chef eager to begin planning for that new job. Whatever your reason, you've come to the right place for chefs. At TOPCHEFS you're in the hands of recruitment professionals long trusted to handle the most exacting recruiting situations. … [Read More...]