TOPCHEFS

Chef Recruitment Agency

Catering Recruitment FAQs for Chefs & Employers now in Beta

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As Ireland based catering recruitment specialists, with a further specialization in finding Chefs, we made a decision to go for precision in our work and the first swipe we took towards this was when we decided we’d let all those other catering jobs which weren’t chefs stay, uncontested by us, with generalist catering recruitment agencies. We’d just specialize in Chefs and while the road hasn’t been without its bumps from a recruitment perspective we’re very happy to have opted to work only with chefs.

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Chefs CV (Curriculum Vitae) and Resume Tips Page is now in ‘beta mode’

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The Chefs CV (Curriculum Vitae) Resume page has just gone live on the TOPCHEFS website. See Chef’s CV Tips for catering jobs which, I’d like to emphasize, is not yet as fully polished as we’d like it to be. However as we’re aware of a lot of interest among chefs, on how to best optimize their CVs for success in the very competitive catering jobs market of today, we decided to publish and be damned. Eventually, as part of our program to

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Sourcing Chefs in Ireland, Proactive Vs Reactive Recruitment

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Not to be Found on Irish Job boards

We’ve just blown the budget on Irish Catering Jobs Boards, can you help us?

“Hi, do you have any Chef De Parties, Sous Chefs, Pastry Chefs, Head Chefs (delete as appropriate)?” Even before introducing themselves this is often the first thing we hear from our Irish catering clients. The second thing we often hear is “how much do you charge?” Now we really do know that they’re already down several hundred on Irish job board fees, know they urgently need an agency’s help but hate throwing good money after bad. [Read more…]

The Great Chef De Partie drought in Irish Catering Recruitment

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Chef De Parties in Ireland, the rare breed in Irish Catering Recruitment

We’ve covered the shortage of Chefs in the Irish catering industry in an earlier blog post about the great chef shortage. Since then there’s been little improvement in the supply of chefs anywhere in Irish catering, whether directly to the hospitality industry or indeed to catering recruiters.

Yet not all aspects of this chef shortage are created equal. One position in particular is a persistent headache for anyone attempting to run any catering business right now. That position is, Chef De Partie and there is almost no one who’s been left unaffected by this shortage. Kitchens island wide are groaning under the strain with little relief on the horizon.

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Headhunting Chefs in Ireland

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The Taboo Subject of Headhunting Chefs in Ireland

Because we’re an Ireland based Catering Recruitment Agency we’re expected to be able to find chefs in Ireland (and further afield too) to order. One less spoken about means of finding chefs is headhunting and speaking from the perspective of being within the recruitment business I hope I can reassure twitchy catering managers that this remains one of the less frequently employed methods of filling holes in a kitchen roster. Even if headhunting didn’t exist, as a recruitment method, the inevitability is that eventually every chef moves on to new challenges and for the most part their decisions to do so are governed by their ambitions and whether they believe these can continue to be gainfully pursued in their current job. When chefs move it’s always because they believe they can do better elsewhere.

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Catering Recruitment Agencies, the best place for your Resume?

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Success at finding chefs jobs begins, how….?

Those chefs who are most successful at finding chefs jobs in the catering industry, whether in Dublin or elsewhere in Ireland, are almost always those chefs still employed by a catering business of some description. So how do these chefs manage their job moves? Some use catering recruitment agencies, others hear of opportunities by word of mouth and still others begin by

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Catering Recruitment Agency Ireland

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While we are very much a Catering Recruitment Agency, and position ourselves as such, we belong to a subcategory underneath that umbrella term i.e. Chef Recruitment Agency. From a business perspective there’s a strong argument to be made for general Catering Recruitment Agencies over specialized Chef Recruitment Agencies and we may as well be honest enough to admit it.

Or why we decided to become a Chef Recruitment Agency instead

Firstly there’s volume cost savings to be made on job board advertising costs and sundry other job marketing costs, whether it’s advertising positions in the national press or any of the other platforms used by recruiters. General catering and hospitality recruiters typically have more jobs on at any given time than do specialist chef recruiters.

The other main business advantage general catering recruitment agencies enjoy over specialists

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Irish Times asks “where did all the chefs go?”

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Or why is it so difficult to find chefs in Ireland

Finally! This week the Irish TImes has got to the question every catering recruitment consultant, especially those of us who specialize in recruiting chefs, has had to field many times:

“Why, in such a recessionary market, can’t I find any chefs?”

Some of the biggest names in the industry are looking for qualified chefs, including Shanahan’s on the Green, the Shelbourne Hotel and the Michelin-starred Malahide restaurant Bon Appetit. Even Masterchef judge Dylan McGrath has been recruiting staff for his Rustic Stone restaurant in Dublin. Recently the jobs.ie website listed more than 100 jobs around the country for chefs at a variety of levels.

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Employers – Find Chefs

Grand Hotel

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...]