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Chef Trial Shifts – 12 Steps To Winning Big

July 27, 2022 By David Hall

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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Filed Under: Chef Jobs, Chefs Employment, Job Interviews, Job Offers, Trial Shifts Tagged With: Chefs, Expert Tips

Don’t Make These 8 Chef Job Hunting Mistakes

July 22, 2022 By David Hall

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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Filed Under: Chef Jobs, Job Interviews Tagged With: Catering Recruitment, Expert Tips

10 Life Lessons Chefs Can Teach Civilians

May 28, 2015 By David Hall

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What Chefs Would Tell You – If You Asked

Chef’s aren’t like other people, they’re just not. How could they be? They work in a hot and humid climate all day long, and most of the night too.

People appreciate what they do, but they almost never get the satisfaction of hearing that applause or even a direct compliment. As for the tips their talents generate? They almost never see a red cent of it.

What they do get is to experience intense pressure, have their work held to high standards and have to do this over and over again. They are only ever as good as their last meal.

They could work like heroes all week, but if they even mess up one dish, on one table suddenly they’re excoriated and shunned, if only till things blow over. That’s the job of a chef, that’s their life but it doesn’t stop them having opinions about you! About how easy you have it and about their lack of patience with your gripes and complaints. Here’s what they’re thinking and… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Chef Opinion Tagged With: Expert Tips

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.

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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.

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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 Recruitment Costs: 5 Ways to Lower Them

April 15, 2014 By David Hall

Keeping Chef Recruitment Costs low isn’t a “thing” it’s a strategy, a set of tactics, and most of all a state of mind. Some catering and hospitality businesses do this very well, and for others it is a constant struggle. The more noteworthy or outstanding your business, the less you are likely to struggle with Chef recruitment. 

Yet even noteworthy kitchens, and restaurants, are finding that the going is becoming tougher over time. Being noteworthy or highly praised as a destination dining business, while helpful, isn’t a passport to the land of the chef abundance. But chef abundance doesn’t begin and end with chef recruitment, the most important component is chef retention.

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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

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