recruitment
10 In-Demand Hospitality Resume Skills
Frank Giannotti | December 21, 2022
By Frank Giannotti Is your resume good enough to stand out to a hiring manager or an artificial intelligence bot that's doing first round screening? Optimize your CV with the skills that hospitality managers are looking for. AI recruitment software has many advantages for both hiring managers and applicants, for example they remove any biases or pejudices making the process much fairer. On the other hand, fancy formatting and conveying personality won't go as far. If an AI Bot is screening you CV, here's a handy list of terms they want to see and why it matters. Luckily including key terms in your resume to show off your most pertinan...
Fresh Ideas for Surviving Future Crises in the Hotel Business
EHL | November 14, 2022
The World Café was held at EHL Hospitality Business School in July 2022. The event was an opportunity to exchange ideas on the impact of past crises and future preparedness, with 50 hospitality industry practitioners, researchers and economists from Western Switzerland. It was led by Professors Emmanuel Fragniere, Roland Schegg (HES-SO Valais-Wallis), Stefano Borzillo and Augusto Hasman (EHL Hospitality Business School). In this article we present the insider highlights and fresh ideas for surviving any future crises. Crisis management preparedness: New innovation strategies 1. Empowering staff Empowering staff means taking a lo...
AHLA Foundation Announces Partnership With U.S. Job Corps to Attract Hotel Employees
The AHLA Foundation | September 21, 2022
Nationwide Partnership Helps Address Industry’s Workforce Shortage, Provides Immediate Employment to U.S. Talent Pool WASHINGTON (September 21, 2022) – The American Hotel & Lodging Foundation (AHLAF) announced today a formal partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps – first of its kind for Job Corps and for the hospitality industry at large – to ignite the hospitality workforce. With 130,000 open jobs in hospitality, this new partnership’s engagement and retention initiatives will help fill these positions with the highly skilled, ready-to-work Job Corps students enrolled in hospitality and related training pr...
Hotel Guru Robert Rauch to Moderate a Key Session at The 2022 Lodging Conference in Phoenix
R.A. Rauch and Associates | August 24, 2022
PHOENIX, August 24, 2022 - R.A. Rauch and Associates (RAR) announced today that CEO and CHA Robert Rauch will be hosting a panel of distinguished speakers at The Lodging Conference in Phoenix, this September. The Lodging Conference is one of the leading hotel industry events in the world and brings together the industry's most influential hotel owners, operators, presidents, CEOs, investors, and dealmakers to strategize about development, finance, franchising, management, construction, design, and operations. This year’s conference will be held at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa from September 19 through 22. Dur...
Need to Hire Fast? Beekeeper Unveils NEW ‘Employee Referral Solution’ at HITEC Orlando
Beekeeper | June 28, 2022
The new Beekeeper functionality is designed to enable organizations to attract new hires faster by leveraging employee referrals; Visit Beekeeper at HITEC Orlando in Booth 2718 June 28 to 30 at the Orange County Convention Center ORLANDO, June 28, 2022 — Today at HITEC Orlando Beekeeper is showcasing a new solution that fills frontline positions faster, retains employees longer, and lowers overall recruitment costs. The Employee Referral Solution enables human resources teams to notify employees about job openings in real-time. Frontline workers can view open positions and submit referrals with just a click while HR easily tracks referr...
sbe Starts Hiring of 1,000 New Team Members for C3 Amid COVID-19
C3 | April 16, 2020
Sam Nazarian to Commence Recruitment Immediately to Staff 138 Ghost Kitchens Opening by End of 2020 Nazarian will Prioritize Employees Furloughed at Other Restaurants and Properties Due to COVID-19 MIAMI, April 16, 2020 -- Sam Nazarian, Founder and CEO of sbe, the leading lifestyle hospitality company that develops, manages and operates award-winning global brands, today announced that recruitment has begun for 1,000 newly-created positions across the country for sbe's C3 (Creating Culinary Communities) subsidiary. As part of the opening of [food halls] and 138 ghost kitchens before the end of the year, C3 is hiring across the entire organi...
“There’s Nothing More Expensive than Cheap Managers:” How to Optimize Your Hotel Workforce
Alex Shashou, President and Co-Founder of ALICE | May 16, 2016
By Alex Shashou A well-trained staff will mean a well-run hotel. Labor is the principal operational expense in the hotel business, according to a survey of our GMs. This doesn't come as a surprise, as hospitality is first and foremost a service industry, with research pegging labor costs at roughly 32% of revenue. As one hotelier put it, "Everything comes down to people, your biggest variable cost is payroll." When we asked this same GM for his advice for succeeding in the hotel business, he told us simply, "Hiring the best people that you can find. There's nothing more expensive than cheap managers." Though employees are often the grea...
