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London. When Theresa May, actual UK Home Secretary and potential replacement for David Cameron as a Prime Minister, said this week that if elected, she will not guarantee that EU nationals living in the UK will be allowed to remain after Brexit, she dropped a bomb. The hospitality sector is alarmed.
Osnabrueck. Casual casting event instead of classical assessment centre – Lindner, Vienna House und Derag Livinghotels have new selection strategies. The expert Uwe Peter Kanning, professor for economic psychology at the Osnabrueck University of Applied Sciences and expert for selection of personnel, disagrees with some practices these hotel groups are currently using.
Duesseldorf. "Attitude" is all that counts: an increasing number of hotel groups choose their staff members according to their personality and attitude. They attract potential candidates with casual slogans and promises of happiness. New job names whet the appetite for hotel. The receptionist is now called explorer or host – and could be completely new to the industry. The person has to be passionate, that's all that counts here. Even a precision engineer who loves cooking and has mega tattoos can become head chef. Lindner Hotels, Vienna House and Derag Livinghotels about their experiences to fill vacant positions and alternative staff interviews.
Munich. Young adults are backing their search for an apprenticeship mainly on personal recommendations. The proximity to home of a company is the most important reason of choice. Career opportunities and the company's brand recognition are playing a clear subordinated role. A recent study shows these results among applicants and apprentices.
Stockholm. For many years now, the number one operational issue for hotels has been the shortage of qualified workers. Well, in Sweden, they might have found a solution, which could actually kill two birds with one stone: cure the industry and help refugees start a new life. Last October, Swedish labor market partners introduced a new project aimed at quickly integrating immigrants trained as chefs or with experience in cooking and catering into the labor market.
Boulder. Hotel company boardrooms were more settled places in 2014 than the previous few years with only two changes in CEO occurring among the world’s 50 largest hotel groups. This reveals a US consulting company, also analyzing the CEO pay for performance: The highest paid CEOs in the industry arise from the largest companies.
Augsburg. Women need not mutate into men while on their career paths, but rather assume a few of their qualities – or at least learn to understand them. Meetings and teamwork within hotel groups today likely resemble a chess game between the genders and the status symbols absolutely still play a role. Therefore today, this final part of our three-part series is about working within the team, the subject of harassment, networks and finally, about young women. Doris Greif, Kristin Intress, Gabriele Maessen, Daniela Schade, Elke Schade, Susanne Weiss and the HR consultant Gisela Willmes let their voices be heard once again.
Augsburg. Women make their careers, because they want to. And not because of enacted promotion programmes. Women in top positions, who are talking in the second part of our small series today, are looking back on their beginnings in misogynous "boys clubs" and how they were able to make their careers with the aid of respectful and helpful superiors and mentors. From their own experiences and from conversations with female colleagues they know that the family question decides the career – even today. They describe the weaknesses of their own gender in detail – as well as the soft spots of men in a team. Doris Greif, Kristin Intress, Gabriele Maessen, Daniela Schade, Elke Schade, Susanne Weiss, Marion Schumacher and the HR consultant Gisela Willmes about experiences in the hotel industry.
Augsburg. The hotel industry is a male industry. At least in the upper echelons of management. But the air is also getting thinner further down the ladder. The hotel industry needs qualified staff! In response, the Carlson Rezidor Group plans to mobilise the "female reserve". CEO Wolfgang Neumann has taken the new support programme "Women in Leadership" under his personal control. In March 2015, Accor committed itself to the United National principles and just a few weeks ago discussed the issue of women in management roles at a senior management meeting in Paris. hospitalityInside.com spoke with both companies and with eight women who have made it into senior management. Who supported them, what motivated them, how are women doing in male teams, how important are networks? In this and the next edition, Doris Greif, Kristin Intress, Gisela Willmes, Gabriele Maessen, Daniela Schade, Elke Schade, Susanne Weiss and Marion Schumacher report on their experiences.
Munich. The bachelor's degree has asserted itself within the hotel industry. And in particular, the dual studies with which the students are combining study phases with practical phases at the hotel and these days, are even replacing a portion of the apprenticeships. However, it is not always easy for the smaller hotel chains and individual hotels to be able to also offer suitable entry-level positions. But, the graduates, consultants and hoteliers surveyed are unanimous on the fact: A master's degree brings no advantage during professional entry. Practical knowledge of the lower management positions is still needed.
