The Restaurant Association is calling Kiwis to join the hospitality industry to help fill our summer worker shortage.
While our latest Restaurant Association Hospitality Report finds that nationwide sales have bounced back it is our skills shortages that continue to plague our industry.
2022 employee numbers reversed the decline seen in 2021 to reach 135 thousand employees, however, at 0.37 per cent this is the lowest growth level in more than 10 years. More than 80 per cent of our members are not fully staffed currently and of those who have been recruiting recently, 92 per cent have found it difficult to recruit for a mid-senior level positions.
The Restaurant Association estimates that a further 30,000 workers are still needed to join our restaurants cafes and bars, across the summer months alone, and we are calling on Kiwis to jump in and give it a go.
We’re calling on any Kiwis who might want to earn a bit of extra money over the next few months to give hospo a go. We are emphasizing to those who may be interested that our businesses are committed to training and there is a range of different types of shift work and working hours on offer. We have lots of people who have a few shifts a week while their kids are at school or when they’ve finished their studies that are making extra money and getting important work experience at the same time.
To encourage those that are interested in finding out more, the Restaurant Association has made a few of our introduction to hospo training videos available on the HospoLife website.
Hospitality businesses can list their vacancies on the regional facebook job boards and those interested in finding out more about a career in hospitality can head over to the Hospolife microsite. or add their profiles on the Facebook job boards.