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Business

Is a Career in Catering for You?

If you are looking for an interesting job, with plenty of variety and opportunities, a career in catering may be for you. The catering industry is huge, with a lot of different roles. It is not just about cooking or waiting on people. The catering industry comes in many guises.

The obvious roles are to be found in restaurants and bars. However, you could work in food production, which means you could work in a factory or on the production line. Or, you could end up working for an independent food retailer making handmade chocolates. Catering firms also need drivers, event organisers, secretaries, accountants and many other kinds of people. There really is no end to the choice of roles available.

Catering Offers Steady Employment

If you want you can work in a bar, club, pub or restaurant near your home and hold down a steady job with regular hours. However, there are also plenty of opportunities to work on a temporary basis. If you want you could choose to work for an agency or a big catering firm, who provides catering for large events.

This means you can potentially dip in and out of work, as you want. You will be offered work, and whether you take it or not is up to you. Although clearly the more you say yes, and the better job you do the more likely you are to be asked back. Say no all the time and you will fall to the bottom of their list and not get much work. The point is, once you have a little experience under your belt you will rarely be without work in the catering industry should you want it.

Finding Catering Roles

There are several ways to find catering jobs, but by far the most efficient way to do it is to go online. The best jobs are advertised on catering recruitment websites. They have literally thousands of roles available at any one time.

It is possible to search their jobs database, by role, location or contract type, making it super easy for you to find a role that suits you. The application process is quick, so you can apply for half a dozen roles in under an hour, should you want to.

You will find some of the best catering recruitment agencies at www.caterer.com. They are the go to carting jobs website for thousands of UK and European based catering firms, so always have lots of vacancies.