Hospitality
True Rate of Unemployment (TRU): What Hiring Managers Should Know
When hiring managers hear that unemployment is low, it’s easy to assume the labor market is strong and hiring should be easy. But the reality is much more nuanced and complex, prompting the need to rethink unemployment and the true labor market. Understanding the complexity can give you a competitive edge in talent recruitment and hiring. This article dives…
How to Attract Passive Talent for Your Key Roles
Whether the job market is slowing, growing, or staying steady, the labor market is consistently tight in many industries, such as healthcare, elder care, technology, transportation and logistics, skilled manufacturing, skilled trades, and other essential sectors. Even in hospitality (restaurants, hotels, tourism), skilled professionals and top quality candidates are hard to find. How do you attract the best…
Whether or Not to Include Salaries in Job Postings
Goodwin Recruiting has been helping companies identify, attract, and onboard top talent for over 25 years. When performing this specialized work for clients, we manage all aspects of a talent search, with a few exceptions. Here is one of those exceptions. While we often assist clients in developing or honing job ads, we do not…
What a Work Conference Taught Me About Human Connection
Greetings from Fort Worth, Texas! I’m Suzie Coughlin, Area Director with Goodwin Recruiting. Last month, our fully remote, nationwide talent recruiting firm gathered in Orlando for our annual in-person summit. It was a powerful experience in genuine human connection for professionals in a remote working world. The days were jam-packed with sessions, meetings, and conversations squeezed into every available minute….
Acts of Kindness in Recruiting Attract Big Talent
Talent recruiters share many goals and processes with hiring companies as we work to attract the right people for critical roles. At Goodwin Recruiting, there’s one big belief that we and many of our clients share in achieving our mutual goals. It’s called recruiting with heart – the simple but indispensable acts of kindness in talent recruiting that we…
5 Tips to Get the Attention of Hospitality Recruiters on LinkedIn
The hospitality industry is consistently ranked as one of the largest and most influential industries in the United States and world. It comprises multiple sectors, including accommodation (lodging), food and beverage (F&B), travel and tourism, recreation and entertainment, and meetings and events. You can land a top job using proven methods to attract hospitality recruiters on LinkedIn. Employment projections and job…
Leadership Lessons From My First Year at Goodwin Recruiting
When I joined Goodwin Recruiting, I wasn’t stepping into just any executive leadership role. I was assuming the reins from a beloved founder whose legacy carried pride, deep relationships, and a culture developed with great care for two and a half decades. My job was to lead and to honor that history, earn trust, and guide the company into Goodwin…
5 Simple Ways to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile
You know what you’re doing on LinkedIn; you’ve had your account for years. But that’s part of the problem! Many of us have a ‘set it and forget it’ mentality and forget to go back in and update some of the things we should on our LinkedIn profile pages. Whether you’re happy where you are…
Why High Performers Don’t Apply for Jobs – and How Companies Find Them
Most high-performing professionals are not scrolling through job boards. They’re happily employed, they’re busy, and they’re selective with career moves, known as passive candidates. So, when hiring companies say, “No one with the right experience is applying,” the issue usually isn’t a lack of qualified talent. It’s a lack of the right approach to the…
The Top 4 Perks of Being an Executive Chef
Let’s be honest. Nobody becomes an Executive Chef for the money alone. If that is the goal, accounting, engineering, or sales will pay more and probably not demand seventy hour weeks in a hot kitchen surrounded by sharp objects and slippery floors. People choose this career for one reason. Love For The Craft. And if…
