Hospitality & Restaurant Career Fairs

Restaurant & Hospitality Management Career Fairs (aka Job Fairs) offer you two great opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else in your job search — the chance to meet and interview face-to-face with restaurant management recruiters from multiple restaurants, hotels, or clubs in one place, in one day.

The second, less obvious opportunity, is the chance to quickly improve and hone your interviewing skills. This is the topic we will discuss here. Continue reading “Hospitality & Restaurant Career Fairs”

The Details – Your Email Address

The restaurant recruiters, managers and owners you send your information to are forming an image and opinion from everything they see about you, from the content, spelling and grammar in your cover letter and resume, to the email address you use to send it.

If you send your resume from something like,
frothingatthemouth@somedomain.com“, “Budweiserchef@somedomain.com“, “cokehead@somedomain.com” or “Cookbunny@somedomain.com” (unfortunately, these are not invented – and there are worse), the perception of you as a hospitality professional could be diminished to some degree.

The time to let your personality express its self is at the interview, not in your initial communications or in your email address.

Think about it and then go get yourself real email address for your job search such as, “chefjohndoe@somedomain.com“, “janedoegeneralmanager@somedomain.com“, etc. Continue reading “The Details – Your Email Address”