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Location: Moose Jaw, Canada
Company: Holiday Retirement Corp
Experience: Executive
Highest Level of Education: Other Graduate Degree



Job Responsibilities
Keeping entire kitchen on budget monthly, order all stock, due inventory, direct staff of 30 people. Cook minimum of 4 days per week while performing all of the managemnet duties. Hire and fire when needed, plan special functins and participate in any company contests.
Job Requirements
Must be interprovincial Journeyman Cook with 3-5 years experience, need to have classes that teach you to bake, cook and general sanitation of kitchen, as well as a good class that will teach you to manage your budget for the kitchen - general bookeeping.
Uppers
Unlike many restaurants that require you to work ungodly hours into the night, the latest you'd have to work is 7:30. I have every secong weekend off and I have been rewarded with many cash bonouses as well as the company has flown me to many places for more training.
Downers
Pressure of working on a very tight buget which does not allow you to screw up once or you`ll pay for it.The many job responsiblities that I`m expected to handle all at the same time. My schedule that I have to maintain is tough to handle at times.
Lifestyle
On a whole it's pretty good. I work 50-60 hours per week which is normal for a management position. Cooking Hours are 6:00 -2:30 and 11-7:30 and office days are 8:45- till when ever I get done.Company sends me to a conference once yearly as well puts out contests to enter and I have enter a pie contest that they flew me down to portlan oregon to compete
Compensation
Base salary-$ 3,000.00 per month- $400 quarterly if on budget for every quarter and $1,000.00 if on quarter for entire year. Full benefit package including dental and vision and perscriptions. They'll match your RRSP contributions as well.
Advice to Jobseekers
Good field to always have a job but you should aim for management because lower down positions don`t pay very well. Future is bright because the baby boomer are all aging and more and more places are going to have to be built to house all of them.

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