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Hospitality Manager Jobs: Get the Job – And Paid Well

If you want to land a hospitality manager  job then you need to take off the rose colored glasses and take a hard look at the expectations, not as staff or a worker sees it, but as the owners and investors see it.

Financial Planning

There is a reason why a financial manager can earn a median of $117 000, and can earn as much as $200 000. They make money. The single definition of a hospitality manager job is to make money. Success and failure are all measured in the balance sheet. The better financial managers can handle money, the more they make.

This is true for any manager in the hospitality industry. It doesn’t matter whether your job description asks for someone who can run the day-to-day operations, or human resources. The difference between a low paid manager, and a high paid manager is their ability to manage the money.

May restaurant mangers mistakenly believe that profit and loss is the general manager’s job. If you are in management, then it is your job to run your department in a productive manner.

Hiring Process

Career development starts long before it is time to look for your next job. It starts by learning to measure your current successes, and focusing on what you accomplish in your current job. If you ask me to define the difference between a resume I turn down for a mid level job, and landing a 5 figure job then I answer simply:

Resume #1

  • Project management
  • Managed day to day restaurant duties
  • Team Management and coaching

Resume #2

  • Managed 5 projects lowering expenses .085% and increasing profits 2.31%
  • Daily Management: Decreased purchase expenses 12.8% Decreased electricity expense 8.11%
  • Staff management: Implemented new employee protocols 18.1% in first year employees, reducing hiring budget 3%

Which resume speaks to you? Of course, when the second Candidate attends the job interview I want to see a portfolio that highlights how they accomplished this. I may not wish to discuss the fact further, as long as I see the portfolio.

Personnel Management

No matter how good you are as a financial planner, if you cannot get people ‘onboard’ then it doesn’t matter how great your plans are. A manager needs to be able to sell their plans to everyone from the investor, to the kitchen cleaning staff.

In today’s market Hiring managers want to see viable life coaching skills, preferably from a certifying association. This is not one area where you can take the weekend course. An interviewer will probably not ask about coaching skills. Everything you say, write, and your body language will reveal your proficiency in coaching and motivational skills.

Graphic Art

Communication is important, in all aspects. A report is 50% communication, 50% the effective use of graphics. In my experience, one of the biggest time leaches in a management office is trying to make word processors create a ‘hodge podge’ of graphics. The more complex reports need to be, the more time is lost creating strong visual messages.

Small restaurants require the advertising to be done by the management staff. A good graphic artist with a background in marketing is able to create advertisements that work.

While graphic art is overlooked by most managers as a viable skill, it can make the difference between landing a mid-level job, and a higher management job.

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