New position!

Chef

Are you looking for a new place to share your culinary visions?

Our client is an established progressive hospitality group based in Halifax. They operate busy and high volume establishments offering an upscale casual dining experience.

The successful candidate must exhibit role model standards and have excellent communication skills. The ability to maintain and execute high standards of quality in food preparation with quick service output is a must. This position calls for hard work and offers a challenging role that will let you make an immediate impact. You'll make decisions that make a big difference. And you'll enjoy big rewards.

Other qualifications include:

- Minimum three to five years experience in high volume dining establishments.
- High-level training from a recognized cooking school.
- Experience in executing consistent and high quality menu items.
- Excellent knowledge of food and food trends.
- Experience working with Italian style cooking is an asset
- Ability to drive systems and standards of kitchen operations by role modeling and spot-checking
- Extremely well organized and excel at multi-tasking.
- Thrive under pressure.
- And above all, a passion for producing excellent culinary experiences.

Responsibilities include:

- Ability to assume all responsibility of the day-to-day operations of the kitchen.
- Ensure established food handling and departmental guidelines are followed.
- Manage food and labour costs as well as procedures and planning
- Efficient at keeping up all par stocks of prep.


Our Client offers a very competitive salary range for the industry based on experience including full benefits.

We are specialists in recruiting for the hospitality industry.

Please forward resumes via e-mail to
Brooke Ireland-
Jump Career Solutions
Halifax, Nova Scotia
E-mail: brooke@jumpcareers.ca
www.jumpcareers.ca

Five Hot Job Search Tips

It’s about connectivity and using that connectivity to find the perfect fit in a creative way- Shrink the world and allow people to find their dream career- allow companies to find the perfect fit. Here are a few tips to keep in mind.

Talk to a Recruiter:
It never hurts to have some else helping you with your next career move. Talking to a recruiter will extend your reach to potential employers. It also will get your resume to the top of the pile! Give Jump Career Solutions a call and discuss your career options.

Freshen up your Resume:

Updating your resume isn't just about adding your most recent job at the top. It's important to keep your resume current by updating your skills and reviewing the layout of your resume every once in a while. Tighten-up the language, add some great action words (like increased, motivated, and enabled), and make sure it accurately describes the jobs you've had.

Never stop looking (it can not hurt):

Keep searching for a job even if you think an offer is impending. Sometimes things don't go as we planned and if you have nothing to fall back on, you put all your good job searching efforts at risk. By having a few interviews lined up, you keep your skills sharp and increase your odds of finding a job.

Network:

Tell people about your qualifications and your skills. Ask them to keep an eye out for you. Ask old colleagues and references for suggestions on where you might find unadvertised jobs and companies that are hiring.

Social Media:

Don't rely on just one medium to find a job. Get online with your skills and qualifications. Use facebook, linked in, twitter, etc to put out some feelers.

Five Ways to Improve Your Resume Today

Five Ways to Improve Your Resume Today

1. Declutter Your Resume:

Avoid long descriptions of jobs and experience. Format your resume so that you have as much white space around the text as possible. This makes reading your resume easier and quicker, a plus to busy human resources professionals and recruiters. By increasing the white space on your resume, you make your content stand out more.

2. Use Bulleted Points:

Using bullets or point form text in your resume makes it easier to read and encourages you to only list the important points of your past employment. Be concise with your information and highlight important qualifications as they relate to this position.

3. Be Clear:

Clearly define what your job was using terms that are simple and easy to understand. Clarify by explaining any qualifications, spell out acronyms, and use common formats for any software you have experience with.

4. Check Your Spelling:

Nothing shows lack of attention to detail like spelling mistakes or typos on your resume. By using a spell checker, you eliminate some of these, but make sure you give it a complete, thorough read-through because some words aren't caught by spell-checkers.

5. Use an Easy to Read Font and Format:

Stick to the basics when creating your resume. Make sure the layout is broken down into appropriate sections, the font is easy to read at a glance, and that your font size isn't too large. Choose a good quality plain paper to print your resume on.

Check out the #2 Reason!!

Social Networking - Ten Powerful Social Networking Tactics For Your Job Search

A Social networking strategy can really impact your job search. Consider these ten tactics to increase your social networking productivity:

1. Join social networking sites. You can search the membership databases by name, title, company and other variables. They usually have job banks or links to job banks and special interest groups where jobs also get posted. Try www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network for a comprehensive list of social networking sites.

2. Become visible to recruiters. Recruiters use networking sites all the time and this should affect what goes into your profile. Best bet? When your resume becomes your profile, it dramatically increases your visibility to recruiters.

3. Have a clear focus for your search. Networking will be more productive when you have a clear focus on industry, type of company, and then a clearly definable target job in mind. Your profile will be more focused and you can offer networking contacts something to work with.

4. Make it easy to help you. Have a clear focus for your job search but don't be too specific about what you need from an employer when you network, that's not relevant at this stage of your search and it can only serve to reduce the leads you get. Stick to your title, skills and what you can offer.

5. Offer something of Value. When you reach out to others, you will get the best response by offering something of value. What do you offer? Use the job leads you cannot use yourself, for more on this see Social Networking - Making Contact.

6. Cross reference job postings. Cross-reference the job posting you find on job banks to find hiring managers from those companies on your social networking sites. When you find someone, make direct contact referring him or her to your member profile. Alternatively look for people who work at this target company who might be able to give you the appropriate introduction.

7. Look for hiring managers. Look for members who carry hiring titles relevant to your job, this will usually be one and two levels above your title. It doesn't matter that you haven't seen a job posting, you can still approach them.

8. Got an interview coming up? Get the names of the people you will be meeting and see if they are members of your networking sites, then research their backgrounds. You should try Googling these names too, and with more senior levels you should also Google News to see if they've had media coverage.

9. Do it right this time. This is not the last time you'll need networking contacts for a job search, so this time do it right, learn how to build networks that will help you today and commit to maintaining them for the future when you'll need them again.

10. Stay in touch. Email lets you communicate effectively with growing networks and as we statistically change jobs about every four years wouldn't it be great to have relevant and robust networks next time job change loomed on your horizon?

Calling all Sous Chefs

Jump Career Solutions has some great Sous Chef Opportunities.
Email Brooke today at brooke@jumpcareers.ca for more details.

Great article in the Globe and Mail

A great article in the Globe and Mail!

"Strategies for the Job Hunt"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/strategies-for-the-job-hunt/article1222280/

A great article on networking and interview tips!
http://www.gosavant.com/JobResources/GoSavantTips.aspx

Check out some of our new Halifax Jobs that we have up on our website. Visit www.jumpcareers.ca for details.