hospitality recruitment
Hospitality’s Recruitment Issues Need Short- and Long-Term Solutions and a Flexible Approach, Hears Industry Webinar
HVS | May 18, 2022
18 May 2022, London: Improving the hospitality industry’s recruitment issue is a multi-faceted challenge with no quick fix but the need for short-term as well as long-term measures, attendees of an industry webinar heard yesterday [17th May 2022]. Introducing the 16th industry webinar organised by global hotel consultancy HVS, legal expert Bird & Bird, publishing group EP Business in Hospitality and restructuring advisory firm AlixPartners, Bird & Bird partner Karen Friebe said that finding staff was the most pressing challenge facing the industry today. A straw poll of webinar attendees revealed that 52% had over 10% fewe...
What Should Recruiters Check on LinkedIn When Hiring Hospitality Graduates?
EHL | September 29, 2021
LinkedIn, the largest professional social network with over 740 million members (and over 55 million registered companies), has become a phenomenal professional tool for vetting people. We screen the profiles of our bosses, peers and subordinates. We check the profiles of long-lost acquaintances and friends, new potential clients, suppliers, business partners, guest speakers in webinars we attend, co-authors we wish to collaborate with, and those candidates we (or recruiters) are about to interview. An indispensable tool LinkedIn has become part of our everyday life, an indispensable instrument to know more about the other without physi...
Hospitality Recruitment: Why a Methodical System Wins Over Gut Instinct
Dr. Sébastien Fernandez | May 17, 2021
By Dr. Sébastien Fernandez A counter-intuitive yet highly practical approach to what really matters when hiring. Using a consistently methodical system throughout the hospitality recruitment process could win out in the long run over simply following gut instinct about a future employee. Poor use of intuition when hiring Some illusions persist over time. One of them is to believe you can determine who should work for you based on a 1-hour conversation. If so many people could accurately judge others, we would not observe voluntary or involuntary turnover to be that high in some companies. We would probably also not see so many intima...
