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Executive Hospitality Search and Revenue Management

Sally — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:53:08 +0000

executive hospitality search: revenue management.

I enjoy keeping up with trends in the hospitality industry, because it keeps not only me current and up-to-date, but also ensures my hospitality executive search firm is on the cutting edge.

Recently, I read “7 core competencies for revenue management,” by Kathleen Cullen, CRME. [...]

Hospitality executive search may be on the rise

Sally — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:43:28 +0000

Hospitality executive search may be on the rise

2012 started with a real bang. Or did it? At a hospitality executive search firm it is of utmost importance to keep your finger on the pulse of the industry. How can we tell the state of the hospitality trade accurately, and without all the [...]

Hospitality executive search and HR: the match before the match

Sally — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:56:42 +0000

Hospitality executive SEARCH and Human resources

Whenever I am looking to place someone in a position, no matter if it is an executive casino job or a placement in hospitality or luxury senior living facilities, the match I concentrate on first is the Human Resources department.

In any company things change, sometimes fairly quickly. [...]

Hospitality executive search and HR looking at our veterans

Sally — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:21:38 +0000

executive hospitality search and our veterans

I read a great post by Tim Sackett today.

Tim listed several benefits that result from hiring veterans that I agree with completely, such as team work, the ability to follow and give directions, the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines, and skills in planning, [...]

More on Gen Y and the Hospitality Industry

Sally — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:48:13 +0000

We’ve been enjoying a lot of great discussion regarding my blog about Gen Y. So much so that I’m going to stick with the topic awhile longer.

Here are some facts:

Generation Y, also known as the Millennial Generation (or Millennials),Generation Next, Net Generation, Echo Boomers, generally includes people born in the 1980s [...]

Gen Y 2

Sally — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:42:06 +0000

In the previous post I referred to Gen Y. My son, Frank, is heading up our new digital arm of operations for my hospitality executive search firm here at the Rizzo Ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley. He is constantly bombarding me with new things to look at and ways to get things done faster [...]

Why hospitality executive search has its eye on Gen Y

Sally — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:44:28 +0000

Hospitality executive search is on the move; Gen Y

Why hospitality executive search has its eye on Gen Y

The term Gen or Generation Y refers to those people born in the US from about 1976 – 2000. This demographic is also known by such titles as Millennials, the Internet Generation, [...]

A New Day for Hyatt

Sally — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:28:50 +0000

Executive hospitality search never felt so good. The Hyatt at night

When I decided to leave the front lines of hotel operations and launch my own hospitality executive search firm, it was after a long period of seeing what actually works in practice. The fact that I have ‘been there and done [...]

Riot House

Sally — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:54:30 +0000

Bentley price Associates hospitality executive search philosophy began at the Hyatt

Usually my day-to-day is taken up with interviews, calls and running my hospitality executive search firm. Recently, there is hardly a week that goes by without someone asking me about my early career years working for the Pritzker Family, legendary owners [...]

Happy Holidays

Sally — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:15:45 +0000

happy 2012

With the holiday season upon us and family and friends being front of mind, I thought I would tell you all how much this year has meant to us. Running a hospitality executive search firm from the Santa Ynez valley has its own brand of challenges, and every day presents [...]