Recruitment – Hiring Advice
What’s the Cost to Recruit & Retain Millennial Hospitality Talent?
Understanding and Retaining the Millennial Workforce in Hospitality (2025 Edition) Millennials—born between 1981 and 1996—are no longer the “up-and-coming” generation. They now make up over 35% of the global workforce and the largest segment in hospitality management and operations roles across the U.S. Yet they remain the most misunderstood. In hotels, restaurants, and travel brands…
Read MoreCan I Really Find Hospitality Candidates on Glassdoor?
Did you know Glassdoor has 64 million unique users every month? From the sheer size alone, it’s likely that you’ll run into hospitality candidates. It’s one of the easiest to use and well-known of all the job sites, offering jobs, job tips, reviews of employers, and much more. It’s a great resource for recruiters and…
Read More4 Ways to Attract Passive Hospitality Talent
When the labor market is tight, attracting the passive candidate is a recruiting imperative. Passive candidates are the workers that aren’t actively looking for a job. That makes them very hard to find; after all, it’s not like they’re answering your hiring ad. Today, attracting the passive candidate takes skill and perseverance. Enticing the passive…
Read MoreWhere to Go if You Want to Recruit Top Restaurant Talent
The turnover rate in the restaurant industry hit 70% a few years ago and it shows no signs of slowing down. This is no news to most industry hiring teams who know that finding good help that lasts is increasingly difficult. This puts pressure on companies seeking good quality workers to keep their facilities functioning…
Read More5 Tips for Attracting and Retaining Millennials
Millennials just surpassed Baby Boomers as the largest population cohort in the United States. Pew Research reports that one in three of our workers is now between the ages of 21 to 36. That’s 56 American workers just waiting for you to reach out, hire, and retain them. But will the same techniques that attracted…
Read MoreStop Losing Talent – Best Practices for Closing on a Job Offer
How many times have you done your best to recruit a candidate, only to have them walk away from the job offer? Say you’ve developed a good relationship, checked out their social media profile, checked references, made your best offer … and still losing Talent to another company. It’s a competitive world out there today,…
Read MoreRecruiting: How to Eliminate Gender Bias
Breaking the Glass Bar: How Hospitality Managers Can Eliminate Gender Bias When Recruiting Bartenders Recruiting is an art, not a science. Diversity isn’t just a corporate talking point—it’s a measurable advantage. Teams that represent a range of backgrounds, genders, and perspectives outperform those that don’t. In hospitality, diversity isn’t just good ethics—it’s good business. Guests…
Read MoreBest Tips for Recruiting During Low Unemployment
If you are a recruiter or HR manager, you’ve already experienced the effects of low unemployment. At the end of November 2018, the unemployment rate in the U.S. was 3.7 percent. That means pretty much everyone that wanted to work had at least one job to go to. It’s challenging enough to recruit into the…
Read MoreIdentifying Destructive Personalities in the Job Interview
Qualified management candidates are always looking for the right job, and it doesn’t matter what type of manager you are on the list below, there is a perfect job for you. This article is designed to help management candidates who are applying for jobs. There are mistakes that you may make in a job interview…
Read MoreThe Truth About Ghosting: Not Just for Dating Anymore
Plus, our experts weigh in on what to do when you’re ghosted by a candidate Ghosting interviews is as old as the recruiting process itself. For years, candidates have chosen to not show up to interviews without any communication – it’s only now that we apply a term that’s been more typically used in the…
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