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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

Opening A New Restaurant? Don’t Want To Perish?

October 15, 2014 By David Hall

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?

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Filed Under: New Openings Tagged With: Catering Recruitment, Chef Recruiters, Expert Tips, New Restaurant, Restaurant Project

Chef Job Descriptions – Resources Now Live

June 23, 2014 By David Hall

 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.

Chef Job Description Puzzle Banner

 

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Filed Under: Recruitment Paperwork Tagged With: Catering Recruitment, Expert Tips

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 Advertising: Expert Tips on Getting it Right!

February 21, 2014 By David Hall

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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Filed Under: Job Offers Tagged With: Catering Recruitment, Expert Tips

Catering Recruiters, Why Always the Same CVs?

January 30, 2014 By David Hall

Why exactly do catering recruitment agencies keep sending me the same curriculum vitae’s, why do I always end up with the usual suspects? Okay, so that is how I am phrasing a statement made to me by a head chef recently, it’s not verbatim but it’s close enough. In fact it was said in a backhanded complimentary way; as an explanation for why this chef was seeking my help with the suggestion embedded that we were likely to be, somehow, a cut above these slovenly under performers. But, as the song goes “it ain’t necessarily so.” Sometimes “how” you use catering recruitment agencies is as important, if not more important, than “which” agency you use.

Chef Resumes CV Same

 

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Filed Under: Chefs Employment Tagged With: Agency, Catering Recruitment

Recruiting Generation Y Chefs: What You Need To Know!

February 13, 2013 By David Hall

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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Filed Under: Job Interviews Tagged With: Catering Recruitment, 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

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