What the recruitment experts said
Learn Purple UAE managing director Lynne Zarbhanelian says: “For recruiting line staff, Africa is very much an important source market at the moment. Places such as Ghana, Zimbabwe and Kenya are popular.
South Africa is popular with independent restaurants, but not so much with hotels as they can’t match the salary expectations. I would never recommend recruiting for hotel line staff from South Africa, because even if they do come to the Middle East, they won’t stay on that money.
In terms of management level staff, the UK has been a very important recruitment market, but that is starting to close up a bit as the Olympics will be happening next year and there are more job opportunities there because of that.”
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Catererglobal.com sales director Peter Willis comments: “The area where recruiters have had most problems is in the F&B department, especially restaurant management.
A new report by Caterglobal.com says that employee recruitment and retention is a major issue facing the Middle East hotel industry with 78% of the market shown to be facing recruitment difficulties.
The Asian and the Middle Eastern regions emerge top in the survey as high growth recruitment markets, where hotels are turning their attention to sourcing the right quality of candidate.
On a very positive note, 78% of those hotels surveyed have increased their learning and development budgets to address their retention issues.”
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Feb 7, 2012 , Nepal
I have also applied many more hotels,they call me interview but never hiring.I paid many taxi fa re and many my documents what is this?i think they just joking to us.
Dec 12, 2011 , Qatar
The main problem is that every hotel is depending on Caterer global and not getting the real candidates . There Should be Another Source