Job Search Tips
Should I Put My Vaccine Status on My Resume?
Deciding whether to have the COVID vaccine and/or the booster is just the first step. If you’re on the job market, you have another decision to make—should you put your vaccine status on your resume? Why is this even an issue? We explore the idea in this blog to give you something to think about…
Read MoreYour Secret Weapon to Hospitality Resume Writing
The Executive Advantage: How Top Hospitality Leaders Use Strategic Resume Positioning to Signal Business Value Beyond the Résumé — Toward Executive Brand Strategy In the upper tiers of leadership, a résumé is no longer a chronology of employment; it is a strategic communication document that signals capability, context, and commercial intelligence. At the Business School…
Read MoreHow to Position Yourself Positively During an Interview
There’s a trick to managing the interview process in a way that leaves your interviewer with a positive impression of your skills. It’s a head game that can be hard if you’re frustrated with the job search or anxious about the interview itself. No matter how negative you might be feeling on the day of…
Read MoreThis is the Best Time of the Day to Apply for Jobs
The Science of Perfect Timing: When to Apply for Jobs to Maximize Your Chances Submitting dozens of applications and hearing nothing back can feel discouraging, but the problem might not be your resume or experience—it might be your timing. In today’s data-driven job market, when you apply can be just as important as how you…
Read MoreHow to Build the Perfect Resume
Crafting the perfect resume can be a daunting task. While it is essential to build a document that showcases your experience, you should be able to reallocate the hours spent constructing your resume on the actual job search (or let a Gecko Hospitality recruiter do that for you, for free). A resume is a summary…
Read MoreGetting Back to Work: Streamline a Fast Onboarding Process
Onboarding in the New Era of Hospitality: Why Structure Beats Spontaneity Every Time The True Cost of DIY Onboarding — and How Proven Strategies Drive Retention and Profitability As hospitality businesses continue to navigate the post-pandemic landscape, one truth has become undeniable: the quality of your onboarding process directly determines the success of your hires—and…
Read MoreTypes of Interviews – In the age of COVID-19, there are many!
As society tries to move back to the new ‘norm,’ hospitality and restaurant employees are slowly seeing jobs open up. With this new age of ‘social distancing,’ it becomes increasingly challenging to conduct interviews. Regardless, the show must go on! The higher you move up in management, the more varied the job interview process will…
Read MoreManeuvering Your Job Search Through COVID-19
Right now times are very uncertain, very stressful and even a bit frightening. The COVID-19 outbreak has not only caused a health crisis but an economic crisis, maneuvering your job search through COVID-19 is a main issue as well. In a matter of days, millions of people found themselves suddenly out of work. Millions more…
Read MoreCan I Have a Flexible Schedule in the Hospitality Industry?
Schedule flexibility is increasingly important to every worker, including those in the hospitality industry. As an industry, the hospitality field offers many benefits for workers to take advantage of, and just one of them is the ability to have flexibility in scheduling. This article looks at the pros and cons of schedule flexibility in the…
Read MoreGeneral Manager or Manager Promote Or Recruit?
The Real Cost of Filling a General Manager Job in Hospitality When a general manager job opens, every day it sits vacant costs you money. Service quality dips, accountability blurs, and your best staff start wondering who’s in charge. Whether you run a single property or a group of restaurants, how you fill that chair—by…
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