OK, I'm Andrew Lansdell I'm a chef lecturer
at Westminster Kingsway College. The advice
I'd give to any young chef leaving college
and going into our industry is try and get
as much experience as they can especially
while there younger and possibly even go out
to work abroad because you learn about different
cuisines, your'e going to find out much more
about ingredients you're not really used to
working with so much in this country and you
can obviously use that in your own cuisine
as you develop as a chef. A young chef obviously
can expect from the industry today they want
people obviously to be very dedicated and
very passionate about what they do and expected
to work very long hours and to give it the're
all really to show there real enthusiasm for
what the're doing. The best bit of careers
advice I've ever been given is you're only
going to get out what you put into it. When
a candidate applies to us to come on the course
what we're really looking for is passion,
commitment and enthusiasm for what we do,
for the industry, they've really got to show
that really to show us what they can do a
lot of them won't have a lot of cooking experience
but it's really that passion for wanting to
learn and wanting to achieve and wanting to
be a chef. I think the industry expect from
our students is passion, enthusiasm, motivation
and real enthusiasm for being a chef, really.
