Most schools don't consider the job search to be a part of what they teach their students. At the San Diego Culinary Institute, that's what it's all about.
We offer our students a great deal more than, "placement services." Your studies at SDCI represent a career pursuit and you need more than placement services. You must chart and plan your career.
• Decide in what corner of the industry you plan to begin your career. Catering? Hotels? Resorts? Personal Chefing? The list of opportunities is long — and often your idea of where to start will change as you study with us and learn more about the industry. We'll help you decide and give you the opportunities you need to make a good decision.
• Plan where to take your first job: you'll want to work with people that will help you develop your craft — because the culinary arts demand a lifelong pursuit of learning. This fast moving industry leaves behind those that stop learning.
• Plan how you will climb the ladder. We'll help you to think not just about your first step in the business, not just about your first position, but about your next — and your next. Things move fast in the culinary arts. They way we cook. What people eat. The most successful graduates of our program plan their foundation of experience, how they'll build it brick by brick. And then erect a successful career on that.
• You will speak with some of the finest Executive Chefs in the industry. Part of your education must include the chance to speak with experienced Chefs. We'll introduce you to them. We'll help you to begin that dialog.
We'll help you with each of these things and more.
Career planning begins with our curriculum and extends to a program of assistance by our staff after graduation. Students of the Commis program, take courses on how to plan their careers. They learn how to write their resumes (and how career changers write a successful resume to begin a new career), how to perform in a job interview, how to present themselves to prospective employers, how to prepare their portfolios, and much more. After graduation, we meet with every student to assist them with their job search. And you'll work with our career office as well as our team of Chef Instructors. Among us, our web of contacts in the industry runs wide. A word from SDCI carries a great deal of weight with many HR departments and hiring Chefs.
Visit our offices to check our latest placement statistics. We consistently place a remarkably high percentage of all our graduates. But we don’t just get them jobs. With assistance from our team — our Chefs and our placement officers — our students go to work with Chefs that encourage their careers and work in kitchens serving the sort of fine food on white tablecloths that you aspire to in your career.
We at the San Diego Culinary Institute are in the 'outcome' business. We measure our success on the success of each and every one of our students. There is no outcome more significant to what we do than the measure of our placement success.