Career Advice

Unfortunately recruiters often get people applying for roles which are far beyond their education, work experience and experience in life. Graduates who would like to be the GM of a 1,000 room hotel with 15 F&B outlets; it is unrealistic and 99% of the time wasting everybody's time.

Therefore, applicants should have a plan of their next steps. Why do you want to become a F&B manager, how do you see yourself grow into that role? What if you are the F&B manager in 5 years, what's next?

It is always good to have a long term career perspective. Better to have a plan which changes along the way, than no plan at all. So do invest time (and money) in talking to someone who has been there, and done it before, to get a better view of your preferred path.

Visas

When applying for a job, make sure you have the correct visa, or know how to obtain them and how long it can (and does) take if you need to apply for one. Quite often you'll find more information about required visa in the job description.

Should you need support regarding your visa, we recommend to connect with Vira International, www.virainternational.com/uk-work-permit.htm. Vira International Ltd is a specialist Hospitality consultancy for Chefs and  senior staff  and provides an end to end immigration solution for Employers looking to hire Non- EU workers and also supports the employees with all work permit related processes.

Are you allowed to (as an EC-member) or do you have the correct visum to work in The Netherlands? We advice you to connect with Together Abroad (www.togetherabroad.nl), an international career portal where you can apply for multilingual or bilingual jobs and find information about international education.

Start your new career in The Netherlands and search for the perfect job where Dutch is not necessarily a requirement! Together Abroad supports international individual employees in order to be successful on the employment market in The Netherlands. They also offer career coaching, job interview training, basic information about Dutch labour law and presentation skills. Hence, everything to get a job, a new career, in The Netherlands!

Be Yourself

The best chance of getting the job, staying in the job and becoming successful in the company is to be yourself during the interview, and when starting the job. Too many times, people pretend to be someone else, get the job but fail very soon after. Remember this is a waste of everybody's time, bad for future references and a deception for all parties involved.