TEAM MEMBER
Emily Cowdry
(Recruitment Assistant)
01483 239237
Growing up in a small town in Wiltshire, my very first job was working at a children’s soft play centre running birthday parties and retrieving lost items from the bottom of ball pits! My first taste of hospitality was working for a coffee chain at a busy motorway service station and my local pub! I went on to study International Hospitality Management in Cardiff where I was given the opportunity to travel to America two Summers in a row to work in Sunny Florida!
After I graduated I travelled back to America to spend a year working at Walt Disney World which gave me a taste of hospitality in the US.
On my return, I relocated from Wilshire to Surrey and by chance was offered the opportunity to get into hospitality recruitment within the temporary Chef team. I enjoyed the buzz of the busy events season and seeing a different side of hospitality than I had before!
Unfortunately it wasn’t long until the travel bug bit again and this time is was Australia and New Zealand that was calling me. I spent 2 years eating, drinking, travelling and working my way round – trying my hand to any job I could, from bar and restaurants to farm work where I had to fight off snakes and spiders on the daily!
Back in Surrey once more, I spent some time in permanent recruitment before being given the opportunity to join Appetite4Work! I am based in the Godalming office where I work with both FOH and BOH to help connect with and sign up new talent to join our great team!