This is one of the questions we’ve come across on the web this week. It’s an interesting question, especially given the growing trend of people looking for a more meaningful life and pursuing happiness.

Whereas in many other industries candidates would carefully prepare their CV and research the job they are applying for, in the pizza industry we still see candidates just sending a message saying "I am interested" or literally just calling the employer out of the blue.

Over the years, I’ve had several pizza assistants — and of course, I was one myself too. Some of them were already trained pizza makers who had changed jobs and picked up shifts on weekends, others I trained from scratch, and some were “halfway” pizzaioli — meaning they had experience but had never actually worked as head pizza makers.