How To Get Employees For The Food Catering Firm

By George Dodson


Hiring qualified and suitable employees is an important part of any business including catering as the your reputation depends on their work. So whatever common people make out about the catering business but you must know very well that it is a very specialized business that requires people with a particular mindset. Anyone can strap an apron and cook food but there is lot more to the catering business than meets the eye.

Your employees will be responsible for serving food and collecting money, so look for people with some sense of etiquette. To make your catering business a successful venture, you need to set certain standards while selecting the most suitable ones from the several people who apply for the jobs.

There is nothing wrong with you hiring someone who has no experience in the food industry but you do not want to hire them if you are new into the business. The first few weeks of your business are going to be the most crucial since this alone will determine whether you will make it or not and so this is not a time to train a complete novice the basic methods and etiquettes of the catering business. You would definitely need the able assistance of a well experienced staff members to ensure that nothing goes wrong in those first days and help you to tide over in case something goes wrong.

There is always a tendency for the job applicants to misrepresent facts in their resumes whenever they apply for a new job to impress the employer, and so you should not believe everything given in the job application. So do not take every fact to be true and do not skip over any factual detail how so ever unimportant it may seem since then you will be making a huge mistake. So get employment verification to make sure that the person you are about to hire actually worked at the place they said they did.

So while you are hiring new staff, ask intelligent questions during the interview to learn more about the person. These questions can include about their earlier experience in games and other activities requiring teamwork.

You can also assess their marketing skills by asking them to sell some items. You can also ask sudden questions to assess their ability in thinking and answering on the spot. Has he provided some unique solution to the problem posed by you? The way they dress and the body language and attitude displayed during your interview would reveal their ability to impress get the confidence of your customers.




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