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Career Move: Cook/Chef to Recruiter

Working in Hospitality and looking for a career change - you’ve come to the right place! Currently working as a Cook or Chef, unhappy in your role, and want to know where your experience could take you?

You might have never even thought about a career in recruitment… but what if we told you that you could use all of your current skills and work experience to build a successful career, and ultimately make more money!

Good news - you don’t need a recruitment background. You don’t need specific industry knowledge. You just need drive, determination, social skills… and a few other key traits. If you’re the right culture fit, you could go far! Read on to get a clear picture of how your transferable skills could translate to a recruitment role...

H2: What is it about recruitment?

The transition into recruitment from any hospitality role can take your career to the next level! Even in the training phase of being a recruitment consultant, you will recognise the potential of this business… and how far your career path in recruitment could take you!

Recruitment VS Hospitality

Working as a Cook or Chef consists of long work hours, staying late, physically and mentally stressful job, late nights, weekend work, unsociable hours…

Working in Recruitment is a lot of the same! But, let me be direct… it may be the same, but you will definitely earn a lot more money in recruitment. You get out of this job what you put in! If you have the drive and the passion for people and are not shy of hard work - this could be the perfect industry for you! Possibilities with us are endless…

What are the key benefits?

• High-Earning Potential
• Unlimited Progression
• Career Development Plan
• Ability To Reach Director Status in 2-5 years
• Wellness benefits…

Read more about the benefits of recruitment here...

As a Cook/Chef, you thrive in a busy, customer-focused environment, dealing with the public and other staff on a day to day basis. Every day is different, but with a constant focus on customers. But what are your career goals in hospitality? You’re here for a reason, you want more in life, and you want to create your dream life!

How Can My Cook Skills Transfer to Recruitment?

If transferred successfully, your skills developed in hospitality can result in high earnings! Some recruitment skills are honed over time, but starting off on the right foot is key… and that’s easier when your skills are transferable!

Key transferable Hospitality skills:

• Competitiveness
  You always want to better your skills and work to be the best cook/chef in the business - with a strong drive. Healthy competition between a team is great for morale-boosting and ensuring you are all working to the best of your ability.
• Teamwork
  You can’t avoid teamwork in a hospitality role. Whether you’re working with other chefs or kitchen staff or working with the other team members, such as waiters or front of house staff… you are used to creating a seamless system that benefits both the team and customers.
• Work ethic
  A strong work ethic is key in this role - as the hours can be long, the work hard, and the pressure high! Working hard is important for professional and personal success, proving what kind of character you are and how much you want to progress in your career.
• Customer-focused
  Working in hospitality, your work is first and foremost about the customers! Focusing on their experience is key to a successful business - the customer is always right. Spending every day meeting your customer’s needs...
• Management skills
  Depending on your role, you may be in charge of other team members, or you may just have more experience in managing tasks, or taking more responsibility on certain days… great management skills are key to great teamwork and success.
• Multitasking
  Handling many tasks at once, balancing the scales and ensuring all customers are happy with their orders. Working to a plan, but also being flexible to deal with things as they happen - preparing food, making food, serving at times, and working with other cooks....Should we go on?

Start your pathway to recruitment now!

You could be the trainee recruitment consultant that we’re looking for! Recruitment is a natural career pathway from working as a cook or chef.

Start your career path with us now… Interested? Find articles below that will give you every piece of information you could ever want about recruitment life & more about us here at AMA Group!

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