Methods For Selecting Workers While Starting Up A Food Catering Business

You must be very careful about the kind of people you want to hire for your business since the people you hire can make or break your business. So whatever common people make out about the catering business but you must know very well that it is a very specialized business that requires people with a particular mindset. Doing Catering business is not as easy as putting on an apron and cooking, but it involves so many other aspects.


Your employees will be responsible for serving food and collecting money, so look for people with some sense of etiquette. So you must follow certain guidelines to differentiate and hire candidates that will be perfectly suited for your business from those that don't really care..


While there is no bar in recruiting inexperienced people in any job in the industry, it would be prudent not to do so since you yourself are a new entry into the field. The first few weeks of your business are going to be the most crucial since this alone will determine whether you will make it or not and so this is not a time to train a complete novice the basic methods and etiquette of the catering business. You would definitely need the able assistance of a well experienced staff members to ensure that nothing goes wrong in those first days and help you to tide over in case something goes wrong.

There is always a tendency for the job applicants to misrepresent facts in their resumes whenever they apply for a new job to impress the employer, and so you should not believe everything given in the job application. It would be advisable to go over each and every fact given thoroughly even if they seem unimportant, as it might cost you dearly later. In case the applicant has mentioned previous places of employment it would be wise to do some verification from the previous employer.


So while you are hiring new staff, ask intelligent questions during the interview to learn more about the person. Ask them about the value of team work and whether they play any sport and important a role team work played in winning or losing.


Also ask the person to sell any well known product to you to check their marketing skills. You can also ask sudden questions to assess their ability in thinking and answering on the spot. Has he provided some unique solution to the problem posed by you? Closely observe the body language of the applicants during the interview to find out whether they are smartly dressed and if they have the friendly vibe about them to win the confidence of the customers.