by Joe Rice | Dec 17, 2018 | Hospitality Careers, Hotel Industry, Recruiting
Finding good employees is difficult, but that task is even harder when you are working with a limited pool of candidates instead of using a hospitality recruiter. When hotels are only using their own resources to find new managers and employees, they are in essence...
by Joe Rice | Dec 12, 2018 | Candidates
In our next post, we are going to discuss reasons you may not be getting hired. However, another point that falls into that category is not doing the proper research or using the research you do improperly. A wrong question here or there or bringing up the wrong...
by Joe Rice | Dec 10, 2018 | Hotel Industry
As you continue through your hospitality career, there will come a time when you have to make the decision as to whether or not it is a good idea to bring on interns. For some companies, this is a great way to add some labor as well as provide a very useful...
by Joe Rice | Dec 7, 2018 | Hotel Industry
Something that has become more and more popular in internet marketing is the use of social media influencers. These are people with considerable followings that are paid to tout products, services, hotels, restaurants, and pretty much anything else you can think of...
by Joe Rice | Dec 6, 2018 | Career Advice
You finally found your dream job. You interviewed, got hired, and everything seemed perfect at first. Then, after a few weeks, you realize your boss is not the same person you thought you were going to work for when you interviewed. Several months later, while you...
by Joe Rice | Dec 5, 2018 | Hotel Industry
Amazingly, there are still hotel managers not taking online reviews and social media seriously when it comes to promoting their property as well as protecting their online reputation. Traditionalists insist the best way to promote and advertise a property is with...
by Joe Rice | Nov 30, 2018 | Career Advice
Landing a job in a new location may be one of the most difficult things to do in this industry. Regardless of your reputation, work achievements, and education, local candidates generally have a leg up on anyone trying to relocate. It is just far easier to conduct...
by Joe Rice | Nov 28, 2018 | Leadership, Management
The one sad fact of the hotel industry is that the best employees are often leaned on the most. I have been on both sides of this and it did not take me long in either case to realize a solution needed to be put into place to avoid burnout. As you start to climb the...
by Joe Rice | Nov 27, 2018 | Management
Complaints are just a part of the hotel business. There are going to be honest mistakes, misperceptions, and customers that are simply looking for a little something for nothing. As each of these scenarios play out, there will be two things in common. That would be...
by Joe Rice | Nov 23, 2018 | Hotel Industry, Leadership
For many hotel managers, hiring employees is a task they put far too little effort into conducting properly. They leave it up to HR to gather and go through the first wave of applicants, then more or less just go through the motions when they are interviewing,...
