My names Ashley Spencer, I'm the course coordinator
for the part time programme for culinary arts,
Kitchen larder and for the pastry. The advice
I would offer a young chef about to leave
college and go into the industry would be
to stick at it, concentrate on what you want
to do, what you want to get out of life, what
you want to get out of your career. I think
a young chef can expect some hard times to
start off with. It is very hard to start off
with in the industry but there are vital rewards
at the end of all that. Best bit of careers
advice I've ever been given was stick to it,
stick to it, stick to it stay with it, keep
going. When a young chef comes onto one of
my courses I'm looking for somebody who's
dedicated, somebody who has a passion for
cooking. We deal with the part time programme
so we want students, young chefs coming in
that have a passion, that initial passion,
that that's what they wanna do and you can
see that spark in there eye and they come
up with ideas they like to play with their
food and design different ways of presenting
it and just passion. The industry can expect
from a chef that's finished one of our courses
that the're gonna get somebody that has a
well rounded basic knowledge of cooking and
understanding and a passion for wanting to
cook.
