Hospitality Job Interview Tips , Turn Conflict Into Creativity1917696

Hospitality manager jobs are challenging. The Hospitality Recruiter may not be as interested with your visible skills as those intangibles that will increase performance and productivity. Every Candidate has seen the HR manager’s eyes glaze over when they try the ‘Good Job Interview Answers’ that recruiters have heard hundreds of times. Management Candidates who want to ace the job interview need to avoid the standbys and give the answers that will give real answers to the interview questions. Talent Management Improving performance and increasing employee retention is at the top of most employer’s wish list. Geckohospitality recruiters works with Candidates on a daily basis, helping them learn how to answer interview questions. This blog is their ‘training manual’ for restaurant management candidates. Most new managers feel that employee management is about creating harmony and keeping employees from wanting to quit. Harmony is over rated. Bringing out the innovation and collaboration in a team will generate an environment were improved performance becomes a symptom of the management strategy instead of the primary focus.

The Innovative Genome This is a creative map of organizational dynamics that tells us how competing talent can come together rand promote growth. In short is is Compete, Collaborate, Create and Control. When the weak work with the strong they develop ideas that might have been overlooked before. This is only one management tool. Each one has a down side. For the purpose of restaurant managers and their own development. The core for success is the innovated created when different mindsets collaborate on the same problem. Values and Motivations Talented people have different values and motivations. In many environments these conflict with each other. These can create a toxic situation within the team that can make collaboration difficult. Talent is High Maintenance The problem with talented people is that they need a challenge. They can be an emotional drain on a manager who doesn’t let them create different ways of entertaining themselves and motivating each other. Even when a manager successfully creates an environment where talent can feed off each other, the manger must learn to identify and respond to talent quickly. There is a synergy created that needs to build momentum. If you lose the forward movement then your whole project can be set back. Job Interview Strategy This article is meant to help potential management candidates realize the importance of developing a strategy in their current position and ‘work out the kinks’. Document your strategy. Put it in writing. Keep track of your successes and failures. All of this information is valuable in a job website. You may not want to walk into the interview with a large portfolio but it is better to have the information, and have the job interviewer just take a casual glance and reject it, than to make claims on your resume, and in the job interview, that you cannot support or validate.