Finding an Employee

Hoteliers who are experiencing challenges in finding the right employees for their vacancies share their comments here.

• Do you recruit directly or through a recruiting agency?
• How many applications do you receive in average?
• Are the applications adequate accordig to position?
• How do you rate the quality of CV’s?
• What do you think of online recruiting?

Finding a Job

This is where hotel job seekers post their experience in finding a position in a hotel or cruise ship company. 

• How many applications have you sent out?
• Of these, how many were sent directly to employers?
• How many to recruiting agents?
• What was the response rate?
• Have you found a suitable position?
• How long did it take?
• What is your opinion of applying for a job per email?

Hide & Seek – The Hotel Job Market Game

It’s so easy these days. You type whatever you want into a search engine and up comes a list, pages and pages of what you are looking for.

Hotel jobs for instance. Recruiting agents, employers, web-communities, there are hundreds. Employers have it dead easy too. Enter what you are looking for, attach a short description, perhaps a salary, on your own website or at one of the numerous platforms.

So far so good. But what then? Hotel professionals say that they can’t find a job. If you ask hoteliers, they say it’s very difficult to find employees.

I am sure that there are a number of people who can shed some light on this by sharing their experience.  So, let us start by asking a few job seekers, recruiting agencies and employers…