Executive Search

We are constantly training managers in recruitment and selection techniques and selecting senior managers, chefs and other senior specialist staff for the hospitality businesses we work with. This puts us in an ideal position to help you find key staff for your business. Our thorough knowledge of the hospitality industry and our background in management means we can handle the whole process from evolution of the job description, right through to salary package negotiations.

To make the process of finding someone for you faster and more efficient, we have spent years evolving our own library of job advertisements, job descriptions, job aptitude test screens, interview questions and reference checking procedures. Every time we have recruited for a client, we have added to our knowledge base. This constant involvement in senior recruitment has also led us to a thorough understanding of the Australian and NZ job markets.

The process of executive search:

1. Review business plan, assess job requirements. Evolve Job Description & Person Specification.
2. Identify performers in the particular industry subsection and discretely invite them to apply (networking).
3. Prepare advertising artwork and place ads in regional newspapers and other relevant industry publications.
4. Screen resumes, create applicant database, schedule 1st interviews (1 hour each), prepare reject letters.
5. Conduct first interviews, evaluate, prepare and send reject letters (second round).
6. Conduct reference checking (three hours per applicant) prepare transcripts for the client.
7. Conduct aptitude testing (1 hour each).
8. Conduct 2nd interviews (90 minutes each), prepare and send reject letters (fourth round).
9. Forward short listed applicants to client, together with resumes, reference checking transcripts, aptitude test results and previous interview notes.
10. Prepare and send reject letters (final round).

Some of the senior recruitment projects we've handled:

Operations Manager — Civic, Sydney
Restaurant Manager — The Deck, Hervey Bay & Bundaberg
Operations Manager — Warrenmang Vineyard Resort
Venue Manager — Poet's Lane Receptions
General Manager — The Imperial & The Knox Hotels
General Manager — The Springs Group
Operations Manager — Civic Hotel
Functions Manager — Yarra Valley Dairy
General Manager — Lake House, Daylesford
Restaurant Manager — Oscar W's, Echuca
Head Chef — Wildflower
Head Chef — The Melbourne Oyster Bar
Restaurant Manager — The Melbourne Oyster Bar
Head Chef — Piero's by Tony Sassi
Administration Supervisor — Piero's by Tony Sassi
General Manager — The Canterbury Hotel
General Manager — Mount Buffalo Chalet
Hotel Manager — Mount Buffalo Lodge
Operations Manager — The Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant
Head Chef — The Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant
Group Sales Executive — Spotless Leisure Services
Operations Manager — The Point
Head Chef — The Point
Functions Manager — The Point
Marketing Manager — The Point
Operations Manager — The Stokehouse
Financial Controller — Marchetti's Restaurants
Executive Secretary — Totally Wired Entertainment P/L

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