With an estimated 500,000 hospitality workers expected to be made redundant or temporarily out of work due to Covid-19, the UK’s largest hospitality jobs board, caterer.com, and highly-respected trade body, UKHospitality, have worked together to create a new jobs hub that will help hospitality workers find short-term roles in other sectors.
While the pandemic has reduced the number of hospitality jobs currently available, thousands of job opportunities have been analysed to create the Hospitality Redeployment Hub featuring 26,000 jobs. The Hub aims to help hospitality workers find suitable jobs until they can return to roles in their core sector. It includes jobs in retail, health and social care and logistics/distribution.
While hospitality has been one of the worst affected industries, the pandemic has seen the creation of thousands of essential new short-term roles and the transferrable skills of hospitality workers make many an ideal fit. Research from leading jobs board Totaljobs has shown that logistics has seen a 64% increase in vacancies and health and pharmacy a 43% increase.
Neil Pattison, Director at Caterer.com, says: “We’ve partnered with industry body UKHospitality and industry charity Hospitality Action to make Caterer.com a jobs hub to help displaced hospitality staff find short term employment in other sectors.
“Our connection with Totaljobs and our vast hospitality candidate database means we’re uniquely positioned to help in this way and we’re delighted that we can pull on these resources. All hospitality employees in the UK can directly tap into this free service to search and apply for thousands of roles in sectors such as retail, distribution and care. The hospitality sector is resilient, as are its people. When the industry thrives again, Caterer.com along with its partners will help welcome these candidates back to hospitality.”
The non-hospitality jobs now appearing on Caterer.com are powered by Totaljobs, one of the UK’s biggest jobs boards which works with some of the UK’s biggest employers.
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