Surly staff could cost the hospitality industry thousands of jobs, a tourism chief has warned. According to the chairman of Visit Britain, travelers are being put off by the poor service.
He added that, while establishments had previously been able to get away with low-quality service, the time had now come to attract as many tourists [...]
Build Relationships with Professors to Gain a Recruiting Edge
05 Dec
Posted by admin as Recruiting, Trends
Today, if you want to identify, build your brand, and “pre-sell” the best students on employment opportunities with your organization, you need to go beyond the career center and build relationships with the faculty who know and have the direct contact with the students according to Dr John Sullivan.
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The benefits that can accrue from these [...]
Build Your Constituency and Your Membership Will Grow
25 Nov
Posted by admin as Ideas & Innovation, Trends
It may be called branding or building brand awareness or even building your database but the end result is a way to grow your paid membership. One association is doing it through an established an electronic newsletter that now includes over 280, 000 subscribers – including its 60,000 members.
The newsletter is automatically provided to members [...]
Last week we posed the question “Are you listening to your customers?” We were interested in hearing how you related your brand to what your customers were saying about your brand through the social media.
It appears that many food bloggers are also spreading the word using twitter (a microblog), according to Adam Kuban of Serious [...]
Recruitment in Hospitality and Tourism Still a Challenge
11 Nov
Posted by admin as Recruiting, Trends
Employers in the Hospitality and Tourism industry still face challenges in finding the right people to hire in spite of the recent downturn in the economy.
According to the BC Times-Colonist “Canada has taken its search for new talent to Europe, and B.C.’s tourism industry is hopping on for the ride. A job fair planned for [...]
Your Google Reputation Could Cost You a Job
25 Feb
Posted by admin as Career Management, Recruiting, Trends
Do you know what your “Google reputation” says about you? You should! Employers are increasingly turning to online searches or social networking sites to discover information about potential employees. According to recent research, 77 per cent of executive recruiters use search engines to help screen candidates. Furthermore, in a survey of more than a thousand [...]
Job Boards and the Hospitality Hive Hiring Solution
15 Feb
Posted by admin as Ideas & Innovation, Recruiting, Trends
Candidates who are actively looking for work are visiting more and more job boards - these job boards are a great source for getting your message out to this target audience.
This new technology is great for the job seeker - with one new service, candidates can search all the top career sites at once and [...]
A Millennial Speaks Out, Listen Up Recruiters
14 Feb
Posted by admin as Recruiting, Retention, Trends
According to Matthew Charney “ Age Ain’t Nothing but a number and millennials are not a separate species, after all” in a recent post.
According to Charney, corporations, in their nonstop quest to attract top talent, are among the worst offenders when it comes to trying to generalize and analyze this generation. Any effort to [...]
