According to Deloitte Development LLC, the travel, hospitality, and leisure industry will add more than 70 million jobs over the next 10 years. As demand for talent increases, they predict hotel and restaurant CEOs will find it progressively more difficult to find, train and retain key personnel. This is great news for hospitality management job …
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Finding a new hospitality job can be challenging, but you’re not the only one investing time in the process. Hotel and restaurant employers also spend valuable hours searching for suitable candidates, interviewing those with the greatest potential, and narrowing their selection to the best of the best. If you want to improve your chances of …
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People often wonder why they never hear anything back after they hit ‘send’ on the email with a resume attached or on the online job application. If you’re very lucky, you might have a preliminary email exchange with a recruiter and then never hear from them again. It’s a depressing experience and one which also …
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Okay, now Forbes magazine’s article, Top Executive Recruiters Agree There Are Only Three True Job Interview Questions, has confirmed what employers are looking for in candidates. This is not new news. Employers want people who 1) do the job, 2) will do the job, and 3) will fit in (or be tolerated). But there’s a …
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Hiring managers and human resources departments often receive hundreds of resumes or applications for each position they’ve posted. Those that do not have the necessary skills to perform the job as outlined in the job listing quickly find their way to the circular file. Phone interviews are often used to further cull the applicants. Face-to-face …
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While it is difficult to identify the original source for this statistic, it has often been said that approximately 80% of all jobs filled are done so in what is known as the “hidden” or “unpublished” job market. These are jobs typically landed through word-of-mouth and referrals as opposed to the hit-or-miss method of answering …
