Car Valet
What is the work like? Car valets clean the inside and outside of motor vehicles. As a car valet, your tasks would include: using high-pressure hoses to clean vehicles cleaning windows, wheels, door handles and mirrors vacuuming and shampooing upholstery and carpets waxing and polishing surfaces applying gels and other finishes to bumpers and trims steam cleaning the engine, frame and wheel arches collecting and delivering vehicles. You could be based in one place or work from a mobile unit,...
Read MoreChef
What is the work like? Chefs prepare food using a variety of cooking techniques. In large kitchens they will normally work as part of a team responsible for one particular area, such as bread and pastries, or vegetables. The head chef, also known as the executive chef, kitchen manager, or the ‘maitre de cuisine’, runs the entire kitchen. Your main duties as a chef would include: planning menus dealing with suppliers managing the budget organising staff monitoring and maintaining...
Read MoreWaiting Staff
What is the work like? Waiting staff serve customers by taking orders, serving food and preparing tables. An important part of the work is to make customers feel welcome and comfortable during their meal. As a waiter or waitress, your main duties would include: greeting customers as they arrive and showing them to their table giving out menus and taking orders for food and drink serving food and drinks dealing with bill payments making sure tables are clean and tidy. In formal restaurants your...
Read MoreBar Person
What is the work like? Bar staff, serve drinks in pubs, clubs, wine bars, café bars and hotels. As a bar person your main duties would include: serving customers with drinks collecting payment and operating the till providing snacks, such as crisps and nuts. You may also create cocktails for customers and, during busy periods, you may help serve hot and cold food. You would be responsible for keeping the bar area clean and well stocked, which would involve: washing glasses emptying ashtrays...
Read MoreForklift Truck Operator
What is the work like? As a forklift truck operator, it would be your job to load and unload goods deliveries, and move them to and from storage areas in a warehouse or depot. Your main duties would include: loading and unloading goods from vehicles such as lorries or aircraft moving goods packed on pallets or in crates around the storage facility stacking goods in the correct storage bays, following stock control instructions checking loads are secure stacking empty pallets performing daily...
Read MorePacker
What is the work like? Packers work on production lines, putting manufactured goods and products into containers like boxes, trays, bags and crates. Some packers work by hand at a conveyor belt, while others operate packing machines and load the raw materials, packaging and labels. As a packer, your duties would usually include: packing goods with protective materials, such as bubble wrap and polystyrene chips sealing containers using glue, staples or shrink-wrap weighing and labelling...
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