I am being asked this question over and over again: “What do you recommend, is the best company for me to start ?” or “Can you get me a job in one of the best hotel companies?” Readers of my book and my blog know my answer to this universal and very important question.The right choice

It happens almost daily, that I receive not only job advertisements but also inquiries shared by recruiters and colleagues within my network. They ask me, if I can provide a lead for a specific position to be filled or better, if I can recommend someone from my network. I do sometimes still receive job offers

A management colleague of mine and a hotelier in Dubai recently posted a famous quote from Jim Rohn: “If you want something, you will find a way, if you don’t, you will find any excuse”. I like this kind of quote. They provide the essence of a simple truth which we can adopt for ourselves and our

Most young people at the age of 18 to 25 have a natural curiosity and also a certain fascination for another culture besides their own. For example , Germans in the 1980ties had a certain fascination for the FAR EAST. The sound of Honk Kong or Singapore or Shanghai caused certain emotions in many of

How you can profit from the labor shortage in the hotel industry. A journalist of a hospitality magazine observed recently: “Although many restaurants, bars and hotels are finally allowed to reopen due to falling corona numbers, unfortunately they often cannot find anyone who would like to receive their guests, clean their rooms, or cook for

We all need role models and I sincerely wish, that I would have had one, when I first started my career. As a matter of fact, I remember searching for biographies of successful hoteliers back in the early 1970ties but I could not find much. We did not have Google and there was no time

You are in the process of finishing high school ? Possibly you have already graduated and never though much about what comes afterwards ? An astounding 70% of all High-School graduates share this dilemma and I remember well, that back in the 1970ties I myself was no exception to this. What was different for me:

A relationship which can last a lifetime If you are a smart and ambitious hotelier, even in the early stages of your career a good relationship with your recruitment firm and their individual recruiters is of fundamental importance. Not only for yourself but also for your recruiter. This relationship you are about to built is not