USING “GREEN” TO MOTIVATE YOUR TEAM

Janine Bolton is President of LEAF (Leaders in Environmentally Accountable Foodservice), a nation-wide organization that is dedicated to helping the foodservice industry reduce its environmental impact, and makes it easy for diners to identify truly “green” restaurants with third-party certification. Janine and her LEAF team are blazing a green trail in the Canadian Foodservice...

The Hospitality Headhunter Presents… Chef Liana

The Hospitality Headhunter presents – Chef Liana Robberecht’s Food Obsessions Puddings: The Final Frontier  Join the conversation and let Liana and others in the Hospitality Headhunter network know your thoughts about Food and all things Food! I’d like to take a moment to thank all of my readers for their attention, support and shared passion. This article marks my last blog entry...

The Hospitality Headhunter Presents… Janine Bolton

The Hospitality Headhunter presents – Janine Bolton’s Environmentally Friendly Foodservice While the green movement isn’t going away any time soon, certain trends have come and gone as we learn more about the impacts of these practices. Manufacturers are producing better products for the hospitality industry with a lower environmental impact, and foodservice operators are finding...

The Hospitality Headhunter Presents… Chef Liana

The Hospitality Headhunter presents – Chef Liana Robberecht’s Food Obsessions As you may have gathered over the past few months, I am obsessed with hospitality and food – all kinds of foods. In fact, my love of creating new recipes has taken my obsession to another level: Dog food. Now, hear me out, the day was December 7th, 2010; it was the day my life officially changed for...

The Hospo Headhunter-Retention Attraction Tip #2

Follow up from Friday’s blog… Now that you have cleared up what your true values are and are being honest and up front with any new or potential employer, you can start to change or improve your reputation or what people are saying about you on the street. Here is how it works. Example 1 You say to a new employee that we are all about the 3 equal sides of the triangle and then proceed to only...

Corey Harlock – Retention & Attraction

Corey Harlock has spent more than 20 years at the executive management level in the hotel and restaurant sectors, and interviewed and surveyed thousands of prospective employees. With his finger firmly on the pulse of the hospitality industry, Corey can help your company find the right executive, increase its staff productivity, lower turnover and create a healthy work environment. I was...

Kim Bechtel is changing the world… one workplace at a time!

Why is it we spend more time and effort picking what ink jet printer to buy than we do deciding who we should add to our team? Tom Peters was quoted recently as saying the most important thing a manager can do is decide who to hire. I’ll bet the hospitality sector navel gazes about new menus far more than it does about the criteria used to hire service staff. Let me be clear, though, I’m not...

Hiring – Results over Experience?

When looking for the best candidate is it best to look at experience or results? So many managers say that they are looking for the “right fit” or the old “hire for attitude and train for skills.”  Truth is – NOT True, most of the time. Let me ask you this.  When you are looking at a resume or interviewing a candidate what is the FIRST thing you want to know?  What is your...

Time are a Changin' – are you?

So things are picking up and people are hiring – you can see it everywhere if you look hard enough!  The Help Wanted signs are starting to go up, the online job boards are picking up and the economy is slowing starting to chug along. Companies are excited – “Now that we are hiring we’ll just throw our job up on Hcareers and we will have dozens of great people to choose from.” It’s...

Posting & Applying Online – Why it isn't working!

With a recovering market there must be a lot of “great candidates” on the market – right?  I believe that due to some unfortunate circumstances there are some “great” people out there looking.  So when you post your jobs on Hcareers or any other job board why aren’t they applying? I am fond of saying that the great thing about the internet is that it makes it easy to apply for any...