New Hire Onboarding Checklist: Set Them Up for Success

Onboarding is the time when a new employee gets to become acquainted with the workplace, their team, and their new day-to-day life while being set up for success.  A successful onboarding leads to better job performance and higher employee satisfaction which will lead to higher retention, but what makes a strong onboarding schedule?  These are …

5-Step Onboarding Agenda for New Team Members

With companies balancing rehiring new team members and bringing back furloughed team members, there are many menial tasks that can fall to the bottom of the priority list. One such task can be the onboarding and integration of new team members, however, neglecting to properly onboard new members can create more trouble down the road.  …

Culture Fit Interview Questions to Build the Perfect Team

When it comes to interviewing new employees, few terms are bandied about as often—and misunderstood as much—as the elusive “culture fit.” Some hiring managers interpret culture fit as people that they could see as future friends. But that’s not what it means at all. A strong company culture is simply the way that the team …

How Effective Are Job Candidate Personality Assessment?

The online personality assessment can be a useful tool for efficiently screening, assessing and recruiting potential new hires. Hiring managers can glimpse negative personality traits and even use results to forecast a candidate’s future job performance. This standardized data can provide practical insights into how well a candidate will fit into the company culture and …

5 Relationships You Need for a Successful Hospitality Career

Relationships are paramount in the hospitality industry. This has been proven to be the true reality of the hospitality industry. To build a successful hospitality career, you need to prioritize human relationships. There are several reasons why you need to maintain good human relationships in your hospitality career. Some of the reasons are: Great relationships …

3 Ways to Better Support Employees

Our latest survey asked our audience what resources hospitality professionals have available to them from their employers, and what they think would help them reach their career goals.  Thank you to everyone for their feedback, below is a summary of the findings.  Career advancement in the hospitality industry  61% of our audience believes that there …

Become a Better Ally at Work

Recent events such as the #MeToo movement and Black Lives Matter have changed what it means to be a good coworker. As more hospitality companies focus on diversity and inclusion as part of their hiring and promotion practices, hospitality workers can expect to work with people from a wide array of backgrounds.  Fortunately, the hospitality …

Are You and Your Manager Not a Good Fit? Here’s What You Can Do

Have you been investing your best into your work but your manager keeps highlighting your performance as below expectation? This article is written for you. Let’s use this case scenario: You’ve been doing so well at work, punctual, and working as productive as possible. To the best of your knowledge, everything is going smoothly. Then …

Providing Your Team with Feedback: 5 Dos and Don’ts

Whether it’s personally or professionally, most of us want to be appreciated and acknowledged! For those of you who are in managerial or supervisory positions, ensuring that your team(s) knows they’re appreciated helps you retain those valuable employees over time. However, there comes a time when, in addition to that positive feedback, you may need …

4 Tips to Motivate Hotel Staff

As the Covid pandemic has created a job seeker’s market for the hospitality industry, keeping current hotel staff motivated may be more important than ever. If hotel employees aren’t happy at work, they now have a lot of other options available to them.  However, keeping employees engaged and positive at work isn’t simply a matter …