By Deagon B Williams
The standard job application is the one most often used in the hospitality industry. Potential employers can buy a pad of job applications at any stationery store and off you go into hiring your first employee. But… wait, it’s actually not all that easy. Both employers and employees would be well served to dig a little deeper. I often recommend to my clients, the employers, that they create a list of questions for potential employees. Then they can choose a few to ask when in conversation over the application. This helps both sides get to know each other a bit better and assess whether or not there is a good fit.
Additionally, I’d recommend to an employee that writing up a resume, even if you have little experience, is an important gesture. On both sides a little formality serves as a means establishing clearly what is needed in the position and in the business relationship, long before it becomes personal. I have heard employers say over and over, with great frustration, that an employee isn’t doing their job properly. And, most often it turns out that the employee isn’t actually clear on what they should be doing.
So above all it seems to me that a restaurant job application should be helping employers and employees find situations where they can work together with good communication. A restaurant job application, handled the right way, serves as a launching pad to help set the parameters of the working relationship.
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