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We are looking for a cook for the restaurant.

Wir suchen einen Koch / eine Köchin für das Restaurant.

Is there a more elegant way to phrase this? The part "einen Koch / eine Köchin" seems cumbersome and awkward. However, we need to specify that we want either a male or a female cook, and since they go with different articles, it seems that we need to phrase it this way.

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    Als Phrase hat sich das in der Tat eingebürgert, obwohl "Wir suchen einen Koch" eine generelle Suche nach einer Person, die ein Koch ist, ausdrückt, und kein Geschlecht festlegt.
    – user unknown
    Commented Dec 9, 2014 at 3:18
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    If this is an ad in a paper or a website or similar, something like "Wir suchen einen Koch (m/w)" is sometimes used.
    – Ingmar
    Commented Dec 9, 2014 at 7:02
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    Consider the legal obligation to be gender-neutral when hiring. So you will have to use this cumbersome phrasing or add "(m/w)" to the male/neutral form. Does it sound elegant? Heck, no, but....
    – Stephie
    Commented Dec 9, 2014 at 7:08
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    related: german.stackexchange.com/questions/13735/…
    – Takkat
    Commented Dec 9, 2014 at 8:03
  • Küchenpersonal in Leitungsfunktion mit abgeschlossener Kochausbildung oder mehrjähriger professioneller Kocherfahrung – here koch comes or at least may come from kochen ‘to cook’, not from Koch/Köchin ‘cook’.
    – Crissov
    Commented Dec 9, 2014 at 17:14

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You could also use "einen Koch (m/w)".

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  • This is actually quite common in advertising.
    – Ingmar
    Commented Dec 9, 2014 at 7:03
  • You're right, I forgot about that.
    – PhilMasteG
    Commented Dec 9, 2014 at 9:38
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You can either use

einen Koch / eine Köchin

or

eine(n) Koch / Köchin

but "einen Koch / eine Köchin" seems best to me.

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another option would be:

Koch/Köchin für deutsche Küche in Berlin gesucht

for sure city and german culinary were just examples and should be adapted.

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