RESTAURANT RECRUITING
Management Recruiting Services
When you're searching for the right person for the job, you
should balance your decision can be hamstrung by time constraints,
season, salary, supply and demand. The time it takes to find
the perfect fit may not match the time you can afford to spend
looking for the right candidate. As a result, you
compromise. Often that compromise costs you money as the
candidate turns out to be the wrong person for the job. A new
search can cost thousands of dollars, not to mention the time
wasted to train the wrong person for the job. The ideal
recruiter has worn your shoes. As you interview recruiting
firms, ask them about their experience "in the trenches". How can a
recruiter know who is right for you if they've never lived the
nightmare of hiring the wrong person from the other end? Who
is better suited to finding the right person: someone who is a
career recruiter or someone who is a career restauranteur?
The "Recruiter" you hire should be a restaurant consulting firm that
offers recruiting as a service. These firms generally
maintain a vast network of professionals in the industry, making
them uniquely positioned to find the right person for your
operation. With years of assessing talent and potential success, a
seasoned restaurant consulting firm has an ability to choose wisely
that far exceeds the ability of most recruiting firms. The best
part? Restaurant consultants generally charge less than
professional recruiters. It's because they don't depend
solely on recruiting commissions for their livlihood. Look
for a professional Recruiter so charge 15% to 20% of the
candidate's salary. Look for a restaurant consultant to
charge between 9% and 15%.
Hourly Recruiting Services
If you're re-structuring or opening a new restaurant, you may
need to perform mass hiring. A restaurant consultant knows how to
drive "the best of what's available"
(vs."the best of what walks in") into your doors through
concentrated hiring events. They can take care of the advertising,
event staffing, applicant screening, processing, manpower planning,
training scheduling, and employee file set up. If you've
never executed a restaurant opening hiring blitz, you'll struggle
at a time when you need to keep your head above the trees. What's
the cost to your business, your goodwill, and your reputation of
finding the wrong people? Turning the process over to a
professional is the most cost effective solution.
Guerrilla Shift Relief
Often restaurants find themselves in situations where they lose
a key operational player like a General Manager, Executive Chef,
Sous Chef, or Bar / Service Manager. A gap in a key leadership
position can be catastrophic because it pressures you to fill the
position quickly. What recruiting firm can hire find the
right candidate AND hold your restaurant together while you
carefully select the right person for the job? A strong
restaurant consulting company can can parachute into chaos, create
calm and order, hire and train their replacement and get out.
Beware the restaurant consultant who is afraid to run a shift! They
should be used to doing it every day and not be afraid to get their
hands dirty.
