Keeping the Good Ones: How to Hang On to Your Star Employees
For various reasons including a major pandemic, too much incentive money to stay home and the desire to seek other opportunities, it has been difficult to find job candidates. Moreover, once you find them, the next challenge is finding a way to keep them—especially the star employees. Retaining Star Employees It is a known fact […]
Key to Filling Critical Positions and Reducing Turnover
Hiring Candidates with Transferable Skills We all know that during the Covid pandemic many people lost their jobs. And then after what we thought was the end of the pandemic, employers couldn’t find qualified workers. In fact, many in the hospitality industry could not even find warm bodies. Whether due to government incentives to stay […]
Why Hospitality Workers Won’t Be Returning to Their Jobs
The first recovery from the pandemic gave optimism and hope for a brighter future for hospitality workers. Then the Delta variant hit. But still the industry is showing signs of growth if only in starts and stops. Now comes the fun part: getting hospitality workers back to their pre-pandemic posts. This can be quite challenging. […]
Vaccinations: Should You Mandate Your Employees?
Vaccinations: Should You Mandate Your Employees? One of the most controversial topics today is the mandate of COVID vaccinations. For those on the side of mandating, their argument is that it will help slow down the spread of Covid-19 and its variants. On the other side are those who believe they should have a say […]
How Artificial Intelligence Has Impacted the Recruiting Industry
With the increased demand for quality employees, recruiters are having to step up their game. Sifting through resumes and job applications is very time consuming and only helps to weed out the unqualified. Add to the mix job candidates that are becoming more selective in the roles they will choose, and the recruitment challenges only […]
Travel is Back: Six Things You Should Know To Prepare Your Staff Now
The travel industry is always in flux, but never more so than with the pandemic. Thankfully, brighter skies are on the horizon. Travel is picking up with more and more people seeking relief from the trauma we’ve all experienced due to COVID-19. Escaping the Lockdown The substitution of technology for business travel is unavoidable, but […]
Five Steps for Attracting Candidates to Your Business
Attracting candidates in today’s almost-post-Covid environment is difficult. Restaurants, hotels, movie theaters, and others in the hospitality industry are struggling to provide quality customer service due to a lack of employees. The temptation for many is to settle on anyone with a pulse. But to conduct business as before and provide quality service to your […]
Ghosting: Is it Right and How Can You Avoid It?
Ghosting, at least in the new sense of the word, is not a good thing. Ghosting is when a person who used to be friendly or even romantic with someone suddenly cuts off all communication without explanation. It’s a painful experience and leaves one baffled over what they could have done differently to avoid […]
Coaching Employers to Speed Up the Interview Process
The recruiting and hiring process has evolved over many years. The standard format that many businesses still use today began in the 1960s. Various industries were booming and corporations couldn’t hire people fast enough. The process of sending a request to fill an open position to the human resources department, placing a help-wanted advertisement in […]
Will Hotels Continue to Offer Work Remote Positions
What Does the Future Look Like? Like so many, the hotel industry was severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. But unlike many other industries, allowing hotel employees to work remotely during the pandemic wasn’t entirely the best option. The hotel, leisure and travel industry is dependent on customer-facing employees. Sitting behind a computer and making […]
