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Melbourne and Victoria
AusLabourBank helps restaurants and hospitality businesses across Melbourne and Victoria recruit chefs, cooks, kitchen hands, front-of-house staff and venue managers. We scope the role with you, screen candidates and arrange interviews. You make the hiring decision. Placement fees are quoted by role, charged only upon a successful placement and agreed in writing before recruitment begins.
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From cooks to head chefs, including Cantonese, Sichuan, dim sum and other Chinese regional kitchens.
Learn moreWait staff, supervisors and front-of-house managers who can run the floor.
Learn moreOther hospitality roles can be agreed case by case, depending on the role requirements, location and candidate availability.
Two of our existing clients asked us to help staff their new venues. If you're opening a restaurant, send one brief covering every role you need, with the opening date, and we'll plan the recruitment around it.
Recruitment helps you find and hire staff. External HR support helps you manage people administration after they start. You can use either service on its own; each is charged separately.
Quoted by role, charged only upon a successful placement
What counts as a successful placement, and any replacement arrangement, is set out in your written service agreement before we begin. External HR support (A$750 per quarter + GST) is a separate, optional service. We can't guarantee that every role will be filled.
Tell us the role, hours, location and pay range. It takes a few minutes.
We discuss the role and confirm scope and fees in writing. No cost until you agree.
We source and screen candidates and arrange interviews. You make the hiring decision.
The fee is payable on a successful placement, as defined in your written agreement.
We helped three Melbourne employers fill kitchen hand, chef and front-of-house manager roles: a dumpling chain with outlets in Melbourne shopping centres, a well-known Sichuan restaurant and a long-established Cantonese restaurant. Two of them have since asked us to help staff their new venues. Business names are not published for confidentiality.
“Thank you, ALB, for your help. We had just opened, we were short-handed and lacked experienced staff. Luckily you recommended people to us, and that solved a big problem for me!”
— Restaurant owner, new venue, Melbourne (translated from Chinese)
Fees vary between recruiters. AusLabourBank quotes placement fees by role and charges them only upon a successful placement. Fees, payment triggers and any replacement arrangement are agreed in writing before recruitment begins. External HR support is a separate service at A$750 per quarter + GST.
Kitchen hands, cooks and chefs, front-of-house staff, supervisors and restaurant managers. Other hospitality roles can be agreed case by case.
Yes. Send one hiring brief covering all the roles and your opening date, and we'll confirm scope and fees for each role in writing.
We reply to every hiring brief within 3 business days to discuss the role and confirm scope and fees in writing.
No. We screen candidates against your requirements and refer those we consider suitable, but we do not guarantee that a role will be filled, that a candidate will accept an offer, or that a candidate will pass probation. The hiring decision is always yours.
No. Applying for the hospitality roles we recruit for is free. We also offer optional paid career support, which is a separate service and gives no priority in recruitment.
Yes. We work with employers and candidates in English and Chinese.
No. AusLabourBank is not a registered migration agency and does not provide immigration assistance. Our services do not include, and do not guarantee, employer sponsorship, nomination or any visa outcome. Please direct sponsorship and visa questions to a MARA-registered migration agent or an Australian legal practitioner. Employers remain responsible for their own employment and immigration obligations.
Send a hiring brief and we'll reply within 3 business days.
Send a hiring brief