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
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.
Opening A New Restaurant? Don’t Want To Perish?
Of course you don’t want your new restaurant opening to perish and like most people involved in opening a new restaurant you’re pretty confident you, and your new opening, will be a success. And why not? Starting any new venture with the expectation of failure isn’t conducive to success. In any case who starts anything anticipating failure?
Chef Job Descriptions – Resources Now Live
Chef Job Descriptions are a necessary evil and one that every catering and hospitality business is using, or should be using. It’s where, and what, they’re used for that, all too often, people trip up on.
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Want A Great Chef – What’s Great About Your Job?
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 Job Advertising: Expert Tips on Getting it Right!
We’ve chewed over the subject of chef job advertising together before, recently I was inspired [translation:enraged] by a chef job ad that encapsulated everything that’s broken about chef attraction strategies in the catering industry. Having fully vented on that episode, this time I’d like to suggest a more positive and constructive approach to the matter, with, hopefully, beneficial results for you i.e. the chef job advertiser. Perhaps a less misleading title for this post would be Chef Job Advertising: why you should at least make an effort, or maybe even, Chef Job Advertising: make me want to work for you.
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