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KSB Recruitment Consultants Ltd Hospitality & Catering recruitment specialists
35 years connecting great people with great businesses
UK-wide | Temporary & Permanent 🧑‍🍳 Recruitment Agency.

Recruiting temporary and permanent staff for catering and hospitality industry.

A Chef interview is its own thing. It is usually short, it often happens in the kitchen rather than in an office, and it...
14/10/2026

A Chef interview is its own thing. It is usually short, it often happens in the kitchen rather than in an office, and it can end with a Head Chef asking you in for a trial shift.

We have put together the questions that come up most, including what sections you have worked on, how many covers you did on a busy night, and how you handle allergens. There is also a bit on the trial shift itself, what to take with you and what Head Chefs are really watching for while you cook.

One thing worth knowing. Plenty of kitchens pay for trial shifts, and it is completely fair to ask before you agree to one.

You can read the full guide here: https://ksbrecruitment.co.uk/top-7-chef-interview-questions-and-how-to-answer-them-2026/

If you are looking for your next kitchen, call us on 0121 828 9840 or register at https://jobs.ksbrecruitment.co.uk/register.aspx

Applying for hospitality jobs takes up a lot of your time. You fill in the same details over and over on different job s...
07/10/2026

Applying for hospitality jobs takes up a lot of your time. You fill in the same details over and over on different job sites, and you send your CV off again and again.

Registering with us works differently. You give us your details once, and they sit on our system with your experience, the kind of work you want and where you can travel to. When our consultants are filling a role, they search those details, so the more we know about you, the more opportunities we can offer you

We also advertise our latest jobs on our website, so it is worth checking in and calling us if you see something that suits you. If you have not heard from us for a while, a quick call is often all it takes to get you back in front of the right consultant.

What we offer:

👤 Roles: Chefs, Kitchen Porters, Front of House, Housekeeping, Events staff and management level positions.

✨Sectors: Hotels, Restaurants, Pubs, Event Venues, Care homes, Schools, Military Camps and Contract Catering Venues across the UK.

🔄Flexibility: Both temporary positions and permanent placements.

It is free to register and it only takes a few minutes.

👉Register at https://jobs.ksbrecruitment.co.uk/register.aspx or 📞 call us on 0121 828 9840.

KSB Recruitment is a specialist hospitality and catering recruitment agency, and we have been placing people in hotels, ...
30/09/2026

KSB Recruitment is a specialist hospitality and catering recruitment agency, and we have been placing people in hotels, restaurants, pubs, events and contract catering venues since 1991. Our team is based in Solihull, near Birmingham, and we place staff with venues across the UK.

We find temporary and permanent jobs for Chefs, kitchen porters, front-of-house, housekeeping, events staff and hospitality managers.

Why register with KSB?

✅ Registering with us is completely free.
✅ You can choose temporary work, a permanent job or both, and you tell us where and when you would like to work.
✅ We post our latest jobs on our website, and our consultants contact you directly when your experience is a good match for a role.
✅ If you work temporary shifts with us, you are paid weekly through PAYE on our own payroll, so your tax and National Insurance are handled properly.
✅ We work with well known and reputable companies
✅ We are REC Audited, and we won Best Company Overall at the Birmingham Business Best Places to Work Awards 2026.

If you would like to join us, you can register at https://jobs.ksbrecruitment.co.uk/register.aspx

or give us a call on 0121 828 9840. We look forward to hearing from you.

Today is World Tourism Day, and tourism tends to get talked about in numbers. Visitor figures, spending, occupancy, nigh...
27/09/2026

Today is World Tourism Day, and tourism tends to get talked about in numbers. Visitor figures, spending, occupancy, nights booked.

What a guest actually remembers is usually a person.

It is the housekeeper who noticed the room needed something extra and sorted it before anyone asked. The Chef who was in at six so that breakfast was ready at nine. Whoever was on reception when a family arrived at half past eleven at night after a delayed flight, and made it feel like no trouble at all. The kitchen porter nobody sees, without whom none of the rest of it happens.

None of that shows up in a tourism report, and none of it happens on its own. It happens because somebody turned up and cared about doing the job properly, often at an hour when most people are asleep.

We have spent 35 years placing those people, across hotels, restaurants, pubs and catering sites around the country, and the thing that strikes us is how rarely any of them think of what they do as remarkable. It is just the shift.

So today is a good day to say it. If you work in this industry, the experience guests remember is the one you created for them.

Thank you for that.

We are always glad to help venues find people who work like this, so if you have a role coming up, or you are a candidate passionate about the industry looking for your next role, we are on 0121 828 9840.

If you've been thinking about registering your CV with an agency but haven't got round to it, it's usually one of these ...
16/09/2026

If you've been thinking about registering your CV with an agency but haven't got round to it, it's usually one of these three things stopping you.

1. Do I have to pay anything?
No. Not for registering, not for being put forward, not for being placed. It's illegal in the UK for an agency to charge you to find you work, and it has been since the Employment Agencies Act 1973.

We mention it because people ask carefully, as though they're expecting a catch. If any agency ever asks you for money to find you a job, that's the point to walk away.

2. Will I actually hear back?
This is the one that puts people off registering, and fairly. Plenty have applied for things and heard nothing at all.

We can't promise a role every time, because sometimes there isn't one that fits. What we can do is tell you either way. If we've put you forward and it hasn't gone anywhere, you'll know. And if it's quiet, it's usually because we're waiting on someone else, not because you've been forgotten.

3. Am I committing to anything by registering?
Not at all. Registering just means we know who you are, what you can do and the sort of work you're after, so we can get in touch when something suitable comes along.

If we ring about a shift or a role and it isn't right for you, just say so. That's a normal part of it, and it won't count against you next time. Plenty of people wait a while for the right thing to come up, and that's absolutely fine.

Registering on our website takes a few minutes, and you can do it whenever it suits you.

Register at https://jobs.ksbrecruitment.co.uk/register.aspx

And you can give us a call on 0121 828 9840.

It's National Payroll Week, and timesheets are easily the least exciting part of running a venue. They also cause more a...
09/09/2026

It's National Payroll Week, and timesheets are easily the least exciting part of running a venue. They also cause more admin than anything else in the week.

When agency hours come back wrong, it's rarely anything dramatic. It's a break deducted automatically when someone worked straight through the rush. A function that overran and got written down as the rostered finish. A signature missing because the manager who watched the shift had gone home.

None of that matters much on the night. It matters on Monday morning, when it turns into an email chain between your office, our office, and a worker who is quite reasonably asking where their money is.

Four habits on shift that keep it off your desk:

Sign it before the shift changes hands. Your duty manager saw the work, so let them verify it at the end of the night. Leave it to the end of the week, and the person who can honestly sign for those hours might be off for four days.

Check the finish time matches what happened. If service overran or the function went late, the timesheet should say so rather than repeating what the rota said.

Look at the break deduction. This is the query we resolve most often. Someone missed their break because it was heaving, the system took it off anyway, and nobody noticed until payday.

Get a photo of the signed sheet. Five seconds on someone's phone, and any question later gets settled without anyone going through files.

At KSB, our payroll is run in-house. When a timesheet query does come up between your venue and our candidates, you speak straight to us rather than a third-party call centre. We verify hours quickly so your invoices stay accurate and your staff get paid on time.

That is usually the difference between a two-minute fix on Wednesday and an email chain on Monday.

If you want a recruitment partner who keeps the shift admin off your desk, give our team a call: 0121 828 9840

We see a lot of CVs, and the ones that get missed usually aren't from people short on experience. They're just hard to r...
02/09/2026

We see a lot of CVs, and the ones that get missed usually aren't from people short on experience. They're just hard to read quickly.

Most hospitality CVs tell us where someone worked. The ones that get shortlisted tell us much more.

A Sous Chef at an 80 cover bistro and A Sous Chef at a 250 cover hotel are two completely different jobs, but on paper they can look identical. If you've ever wondered why your CV didn't get a response, it's often just that the reader couldn't picture the experience.

Five things that make a hospitality CV easier to say yes to.

1. Put the numbers in. Covers per service, size of the brigade, room count, sections you ran. Two or three figures per role does more than a paragraph of description.

2. Say what kind of venue it was. Four AA rosettes, 120 bedrooms, a wet-led pub, a contract catering site. The name might not travel outside your area, but the type tells us plenty.

3. List your certificates with the dates. Level 2 or 3 food safety, allergen training, personal licence, DBS. Easy to forget, and having them on there can bring a start date forward.

4. Add a few words about gaps. Seasonal contract ended, site closed, moved cities. Gaps in this industry are completely normal, and a short note stops anyone wondering.

5. Say what you're looking for now. Full-time or part-time, temporary or permanent, how far you're happy to travel, whether you drive, whether live-in works for you. It saves you from being sent roles that were never going to be a match.

These are quick changes, and it means your CV can do the talking for you rather than waiting on a conversation.

If you want to go deeper, we have written a full guide on getting a hospitality CV past the software and in front of a person. Worth a quick look before you send your next application.
Link: https://ksbrecruitment.co.uk/how-to-write-a-hospitality-cv/

We recruit across hospitality and catering nationwide, temporary and permanent, so if you're looking for something at the moment, you can register with us here, and we'll keep an eye out for roles that actually fit.

Register here: https://jobs.ksbrecruitment.co.uk/register.aspx

⏰ Just 5 minutes spent auditing your Bank Holiday Rota on Thursday afternoon can save your Saturday night revenue.Shift ...
27/08/2026

⏰ Just 5 minutes spent auditing your Bank Holiday Rota on Thursday afternoon can save your Saturday night revenue.

Shift rotas are often marked as done once every slot has a name next to it. Having a full rota on paper and having a resilient service plan are two very different things.

Here are three operational checks to run through before service kicks off.

Save KSB’s number in your phone so you are not caught out if someone drops out last minute: 0121 828 9840

We supply fully vetted, direct PAYE chefs, kitchen porters, and front-of-house staff ready to step in, work hard, and keep your service running smoothly all weekend long.

Have a great Bank Holiday service!

There is a huge difference between someone who writes a great CV and a Head Chef who actually hits a 70% GP on a chaotic...
20/08/2026

There is a huge difference between someone who writes a great CV and a Head Chef who actually hits a 70% GP on a chaotic Saturday night📋.

We’ve all seen what happens when a senior hire looks amazing on paper:

❌ They ace the interview, but by week two, food waste is spiking.
❌ Prep lists aren't done on time, leaving the commis chefs scrambling before 6 PM.
❌ Ticket times drag past 30 minutes, and customer reviews start taking a hit.

A resume tells you where someone worked, but it won't tell you how they handle a ticket machine that won't stop printing or how they treat a kitchen porter under pressure.

That’s why we don’t just forward CVs and hope for the best. Over 35 years in UK hospitality recruitment, we put every senior candidate through proper operational vetting, checking real reference histories, food cost management, and practical kitchen leadership before they ever set foot into your venue.

Whether you need a permanent Head Chef who actually protects your margins or a battle-tested Relief Manager to get you through the weekend, we deliver people who deliver results.

Save our number in your phone before the weekend rush hits: 0121 828 9840 📞

It is 4 PM on a Friday ⏰! Weekend bookings are solid, the prep is almost done, and your Commis Chef texts to say they ca...
12/08/2026

It is 4 PM on a Friday ⏰! Weekend bookings are solid, the prep is almost done, and your Commis Chef texts to say they cannot make their shift.

Every venue manager and head chef knows that exact stomach-drop feeling. Managing a venue is hard enough without having to scramble for last-minute cover right before the doors open.

👏That is why we keep temporary recruitment simple and dependable. When you call KSB, you get direct PAYE staff who are properly vetted, briefed, and ready to step into your kitchen or onto your floor without missing a beat.

Save our number in your phone today so you are never caught out when a shift drops 📞: 0121 828 9840.

Address

Regus Park, Central Boulevard, Blythe Valley Park, Solihull
Birmingham
B908AG

Opening Hours

Monday 8:45am - 5:15pm
Tuesday 8:45am - 5:15pm
Wednesday 8:45am - 5:15pm
Thursday 8:45am - 5:15pm
Friday 8:45am - 5:15pm

Telephone

+441213149365

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