F&B job portal launched to draw S'poreans to sector

Job seekers can filter search through factors like location, see offered salaries

- Anjali Raguraman

A job portal dedicated to the food and beverage (F&B) industry has been launched, aimed at attracting more Singaporeans to the food services sector, among other objectives.

On FABjobs (fabjobs.sg), job seekers looking for full-time or part-time roles are able to filter their preferences according to parameters such as location, position, those with no experience required, students, or jobs available only for Singaporeans.

It was launched on June 26 at the fifth edition of trade show Restaurant Asia by the Restaurant Association of Singapore (RAS) and FastCo, the company behind job portal FastJobs.

Currently, there are more than 1,000 job listings on FABjobs.

According to RAS, the F&B industry in Singapore has 4,900 job vacancies.

The portal allows F&B companies to “customise and highlight unique employee value propositions, to more intelligently recruit and perhaps retrain the right candidates”, RAS president Andrew Kwan said at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre.

Job applicants can also see offered salaries upfront on the portal.

While developing the portal in the past year, RAS vice-president Benjamin Boh said the association and its members – which represent 70 per cent of Singapore’s F&B industry – shared pain points with the team from FastCo. These included the need for listings to be upfront about salaries.