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Profile Code: DM/35/MV18112025 |
| Info | Detail |
| Salary: | From R7000 |
| Languages: | English, Afrikaans, Sesotho and Isizulu |
| Reside: | Vanderbijlpark |
| Availability: | Immediately |
| Live-in or out? | Both |
| Driver’s License: | Code B |
| Dependents ages: | 4 years |
| Who will take care of them if you are employed: | He stays with my Mom |
| Health: Clinic visits – how often: | Only when sick |
| Can you get your medicine on weekends | N/A |
| Cook/Chef | +5 |
| Highest Grade | Grade 12 |
| Other qualifications/ Certificate | – Bsc Microbiology course in industrial course
– N1 -N3 in engineering Mathematics – National Diploma in Analytical Chemistry – Certificate in Professional Cookery and Diploma in Culinary arts |
| Job name 1: | 4 star Restaurant |
| About | Intern Chef |
| Duration: | 2018-2020 |
| Duties: | – Prep for hot kitchen (breakfast items, lunch and dinner)
– Cold kitchen prep (sandwiches, wraps, salad bar, desserts) – Pizza den : every morning, prep the oven (wash, change the wood and start up fire again then make dough, prep all toppings and put in display fridge) |
| Job name 2: | 4 Star Restaurant |
| About | Student Chef Training |
| Duration: | 3 Months |
| Duties: | – prepare Lunch meals: on order and pre prepared
– prepare and issue stock for Dinner, – wash veggies and cut and portion. – Cut and portion cheese – Make sauces (mushroom, pepper and bechamel) – blanch rice, steam potatoes for mash, – prep couscous for salad, polenta, orzo (etc) – prepare meats (marinade if needed) |
| Job name 3: | 4.5 star Private Restaurant |
| About | Acting Chef head |
| Duration: | 6 Months |
| Duties: | – Overlooking kitchen operations
– stock control (rotation, re stocking and merchandising) – scheduling the kitchen staff |
| Job name 4: | 4 star Private Restaurant |
| About | Pastry Chef |
| Duration: | 2023-2025 |
| Duties: | – primarily in charge of Pastry Kitchen,
– every morning count prep then restock up on desserts – all rounder, we had to be able to step into all kitchen departments we had to ensure prep for both hot and cold sections was on par – (eg vegetables blanched, rice steamed, meats issued and prepped, fridges stacked accordingly etc – end of every shift, count stock, fill in prep sheets for next day and clean. |
Reference Received
| Family | Private Restaurant |
| From when to when did she work for you: | If I remember very well, it was around 2012/2013 until about 2015/2016. It’s been a long time, so I’m not completely sure |
| Why is she no longer employed? | She got another job opportunity |
| What were her Duties? | She was an all-rounder. She could work from workstation to workstation. If you gave her duties for the day, she would fulfil them |
| How was her personality at work? | She was friendly, good, and a team worker. |
| What would you say your former employee needs more training in? | I would say yes because. She always wishing to learn more. |
| How many days in a week did she work? | Full time |
| Did she cook? | Yes she was hired as a cook |
| Communications skills | She was nice in the team and very cheerful. |
| Would you recommend her services? | Yes I would |
| Family | Private Restaurant |
| From when to when did she work for you: | From 2023 until this year 2025 |
| Why is she no longer employed? | She was retrenched, there were floods and we didn’t have space, we had to retrench |
| What were her Duties? | She was a Pastry Chef |
| How was her personality at work? | She was good, she enjoys her work |
| What would you say your former employee needs more training in? | No I don’t think she needs more training, she is already good at what she does. |
| How many days in a week did she work? | We used to work 5 days, she was full time |
| Did she cook? Was she creative | Yes, she is very creative |
| Communications skills | She communicates well, don’t want to sound like I am overselling her but she was good at everything. She got along with other people |
| Would you recommend her services? | Yes I would definitely recommend her services |