As the hospitality industry continues its steady emergence internationally from recession, graduate recruitment is a hot topic amongst the world’s big hotel groups, as well as many independent operators.  A recent hospitality graduate survey was conducted by HGR in June 2010 (based upon a sample of 1000 recent international hospitality graduates from 50 different hotel schools), with some interesting sample results summarized below.

Hospitality Graduate Recruitment (HGR) is proud to announce partnership with Anantara at the forthcoming SEG group recruitment forum in Montreux, Switzerland.

Hospitality Graduate Recruitment (HGR) is pleased to be attending the 2009 forum, at what promises to be a great networking event.  HGR has a very strong relationship with its Swiss partner hotel schools and keeps in regular contact through visits, presentations, career fairs and events of this kind. This year HGR is proud to announce that they will be hosting Atlantis The Palm Dubai at the event.

Swiss-based Hospitality Graduate Recruitment has announced the launch of a new service enabling international hotel schools and university hospitality departments to be exclusively profiled on their leading website.

A large part of our business involves maintaining regular contact with the major international hotel chains, with senior Human Resource Management (both corporate and at hotel level) and with hotel General Managers and Head of Departments.  It has been absolutely frightening to experience the ease to which global hoteliers have adopted and accepted the ‘recruitment freeze’ strategy over the last 4-6 months, and especially recently within many Middle Eastern countries, and particularly within the large corporate hotel chains.

‘Keeping one’s head down’ is a phrase we are hearing a lot from hospitality managers, and it seems the whole industry is playing something of a waiting game while we see how the employment and market situation moves forward, and how long it takes to do so...

Swiss-based company Hospitality Graduate Recruitment has been contracted for the third successive year to work with Marriott to recruit for their ‘Voyage’ graduate management programme in 2009.

We are proud to announce that the h-g-r website has been short listed as one of the top three recruitment websites at the Caterersearch.com Web Awards 2008.  Reflecting the extensive growth of the internet as a tool for business, Caterersearch.com has launched the Web Awards honoring the best websites in hospitality across 12 categories.  Websites will be judged on criteria including visual design, innovation, content, interactivity, ease of use, commercial success or potential and overall user experience.

There is no doubt that tough times are here and ahead, and one important question is whether the global hotel players will allow this to immediately impact upon their organisational Human Resources (HR) strategies.  It can be all too easy to utilise a (potential) recession as a reason to reduce headcount and cut costs.  This is in the short-term may seem like sound business practice, but the long-term recovery impact must be seriously considered before embarking on such negative measures.

Hospitality Graduate Recruitment is pleased to announce Plekhanov Russian Economic Academy as its 200th international hospitality university partner.