The Early Seasons Turn
January and there were quite a lot of jobs and lots and lots of chefs looking for either permanent or relief jobs. Was it always like this?
Moving into early February and the early season turn is almost upon us.
The jobs will continue to come online for the season, albeit spread about much than in years gone by.
In 2000 when I got into recruitment seriously I think that in Scotland there was Brian at Clarke Staff Agency, a lady called Dee Cooper who gave out phone numbers, Stafffinders and we all bought the caterer and hotelkeeper religiously on a weekly basis.
We were called Skye Recruitment in the year 2000 and I would have a list of all my jobs which I wrote some stuff on like wages, chef position, location, accommodation and a little spiel about the job and would either read out to chefs looking for work or email over the list to them.
I think the gumtree was starting down in London, just one gumtree and you could advertise on it for free and maybe get an Australian chef or a kiwi chef available and ready to go anywhere. Sometimes they stuck in a job, sometimes they didn’t.
Facebook was just a flicker in Mark Zuckerburg’s imagination and in the main job advertising was done in expensive journals or newspapers. £120 plus it cost me to advertise in the West Highland Free Press for two head chefs on Skye, one for the Isles in and one for the Portree Hotel. The advert got no response which is hard to think about now. A head chef job which gets no response. Crazy.
We had one job in North West Scotland for the season on our website recently and the owner got 40 applicants. Changed days.
The Early Season Turn.
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