Dubai chefs (Open Day Interview jobs)

Applying For Promotion

It’s your chef skills, presumed or real, which get you the interview. Make sure yours are real and are well matched to the job. That doesn’t always mean a like for like match i.e. that in order to apply for a Sous Chef positon that you must have previously worked as a Sous Chef (if that is an explicit job requirement it should be stated). No, if you’ve enough of the right type of experience under your belt it’s fine to “apply for promotion.”

By “apply for promotion” we mean that if you’ve worked for several years as, say, a Chef De Partie in kitchens holding Michelin Stars you could be an ideal candidate for a Sous Chef job in a Michelin Star kitchen. The corollary to this is that even if you’ve several years experience working as a Sous Chef in non Michelin Star kitchens you’re probably wasting your time, and everyone else’s, in applying for this type of job. Your skills likely won’t be what’s needed and the culture in such kitchens is likely to be alien to you. In this sense culture trumps rank.