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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
HYDE PARK — There’s a growing demand for well-trained staff in the food industry, but culinary students still face a tight job market.
More than 800 students and alumni rubbed elbows Tuesday at the largest career fair held at the Culinary Institute of America in four years. Perusing rows of information booths set up by 275 job recruiters from around the country, students set their hopes on finding employment as restaurant managers, waiters, waitresses, bakers, pastry chefs and sous chefs. In 2009, the career fair drew only 35 recruiters, said Wendy Higgins, CIA’s director of career services.
“This would have been normal attendance before the recession,” Higgins said. “The hospitality side of the economy is looking up.”
Nineteen-year-old Kierstin Wainwright of Brick, N.J., is getting ready graduate in April with an associate degree.
“I really need to get a job,” Wainwright said. “I have student loans that I have to start paying six months after I graduate.”
While jobs still exist for graduates fresh out of culinary school, they are fewer and lower in pay, said John Griffin, president of the Mid-Hudson chapter of the American Culinary Federation.
“Before the recession, a culinary student could have gotten a job anywhere,” he said. “Nowadays, it’s much more difficult to find one and to find one that pays well.”
Griffin said a grad could expect to find a job at a restaurant that paid around $40,000 a year.
“That’s generous,” he said, adding that externships were usually available to students for low or no pay.
Employers at the fair said they were looking to hire students with basic knife skills, knowledge in culinary math and general “coachability.”
“I generally look for someone with some experience,” said Bryan Tobias, owner of Portofino Ristorante in Staatsburg.
Though he stopped hiring briefly in 2008, Tobias said, business has picked up at his restaurant every year since.
“I had my best year ever last year,” he said.
Other employers spoke of plans to hire large numbers.
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