If you are looking to work in a hotel or high end restaurant, we can help you write a killer hospitality CV that is likely to get you shortlisted.

Hospitality Roles

Five star hotels, Michelin starred restaurants and high end international establishments in the hospitality Food & Beverage sectors care primarily about customer service, team work, listening skills, efficiency and time management as key priorities.

The top hotels and restaurants look for applicants that can add value to their establishments by demonstrating exceptional service and commitment. The hotels and restaurants focus on customer loyalty and retention of customers, social media ratings and referrals. It means you have to convince the recruiter that you have what it takes in dealing with multicultural people in a variety of situations, business lunches, special celebrations like weddings and corporate events. Many of the top quartile Food & Beverage establishments employ people who can make a difference.

They look for those who are polite and friendly and willing to help others. In terms of style and image, they have to look their best from start to finish and highly presentable. It involves long unsocial hours so you must be healthy and fit and able to work under pressure. As Food & Beverage establishments start early and finish late, you will have to be flexible in your working patterns.

If you apply for senior positions such as Front of House or Hotel manager, then they look for candidates with skills in team management, recruting and training staff, running promotional campaigns and managing budgets.

CV Writing & Cover letter for the hospitality - Food & beverage sector

We help you to write your key skills on the CV so that they match what the hotel or restaurant is looking for.

We also help you write your cover letter or personal statement to focus on what you can offer the company, always matching these skills to what they are after. Transferable skills are important and needs to be highlighted particularly when you are changing careers.

Food & Beverage experience - we will highlight languages you speak, experience with food and menu suggestions or preparations, bar and cocktail suggestions and making of cocktails, and identifying food allergies. Your ability to understand food safety, hygiene and safety will also be highlighted.

If you have worked on contract roles in the food and beverage sector, there are likely to be gaps in your CV. We explain the gaps and help employers understand what you were doing, turning negatives into positives. We exclude irrelevant details, we only give what the recruiter needs to know about your suitability for the role advertised.

How we can we help and add value

As industry subject matter experts on hospitality, we write powerful CVs for waiting staff, hotel managers, sous chef, chef de partie, kitchen staff, commis chef, production chef, chef de rang, catering staff, executive chef, receptionists, concierge staff and hostesses.

We also help you with the interview process. Our one to one on Skype will coach you presentation skills, friendly delivery with accented words, help you to prepare succinct answers to questions asked, body language and what to ask the recruiter at the final stages of your interview process. Behavioural based questions can be the most difficult and awkward questions to answer, and we will help you with this alongside role plays.

We show you the power of communication, mentor you on your soft skills and how to ensure you stay organised during the interview process.

Weakness questions are often awkward to answer but as we are all humans, we cannot be perfect. There are right ways to answer the questions and we will mentor you on the best way of presenting your answers too!

We will also assist in advising you on what to wear for your interview.