As states start to reopen, hospitality companies are planning on bringing back some furloughed staff and hiring new staff. No matter what your prior experience is or if you’re just starting out, chances are good that you already have transferable skills that you can bring to the job. Here are a few tips that will …
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According to the most recent data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), around 15 million Americans work full-time on evening shifts, night shifts, rotating shifts, or other irregular schedules. Within the hospitality industry, night auditors are not the only professionals working the wee hours, either. Positions including: security officer front desk agent maintenance …
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Casinos are unique environments for hospitality professionals because, while you find similar jobs to other hotels, restaurants, clubs, spas, or resorts, casinos also run games and offer many more activities than most standard hospitality venues. So casinos pose more opportunities for professionals in departments like gaming, auditing, quality control, security, and accounting than in other hospitality venues. Here we’ve broken …
Though estimates differ (from $1 more an hour to 10 or 15 percent more overall), many experts agree that learning to speak more one than one language can lead to higher pay – a fact that holds true whether you’re working as a hotel room attendant, customer service rep, manager, or c-suite hospitality executive. Here are …
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Sometimes the most trying time in a job search is the waiting period between an interview that seemed to go well and finally receiving an offer or rejection letter. Oftentimes, this state of limbo drags on for weeks. Hiring decisions that take months are not unheard of, either. Fortunately, there are steps you can take …
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If you’re like most people, you think about stocking towels and toiletries, changing linens, emptying trashcans, and vacuuming rooms when you think about housekeeping. You might, therefore, assume that a housekeeping manager would merely train, schedule, and supervise the team responsible for those duties. However, you’d be wrong. Housekeeping management requires so much more! From …
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Hcareers’ Q&A with Katherine Alford, Senior Vice President Culinary, Food Network & Cooking Channel A passion for food and a love of teaching are the key forces behind Katherine Alford’s success. In her current role as Senior Vice President Culinary at Food Network, which is distributed to over 100 million U.S. households, Alford oversees the …
