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The hospitality industry needs to work harder at attracting this year's school-leavers and graduates in order to persuade them to opt for a career in the sector, the Academy of Food & Wine warned today.
Posted: 18 August 2008 | 11:48
Entries are now open to this year’s Springboard Awards for Excellence, which highlight the companies and people leading the way in attracting and retaining the best staff.
Posted: 14 August 2008 | 14:00
Arguably, recruitment consultants make the hospitality world go around. But at what level should you start using them - and how can they help? Rosalind Mullen looks at the benefits for employer and employee
Posted: 24 July 2008 | 00:00
McDonald's, the fast food giant, has pledged to continue investing heavily in staff recruitment and training as other employers around the UK slash spending on employees.
Posted: 18 July 2008 | 14:48
In a special opinion for Caterer's Education Month, Sara Jayne-Stanes, director of the Academy of Culinary Arts, argues that "local" and "seasonal" are two luxuries that schoolchildren cannot contemplate at dinner time
Posted: 17 July 2008 | 00:00
Sector skills council People 1st today announced that David McHattie, its chief operating officer, will move over to become full-time chief executive of the new National Skills Academy for Hospitality.
Posted: 15 July 2008 | 15:00
Contract caterer The Crown Group has unveiled plans to launch its very own version of the hit BBC series Dragons’ Den.
Posted: 01 July 2008 | 08:00
The Fifteen Foundation, the Jamie Oliver inspired charitable restaurant trust, is in talks to open a third UK site in Leeds, Yorkshire.
Posted: 01 July 2008 | 06:30
Budget hotel chain Travelodge has welcomed the Government’s announcement of £112m being made available for hospitality training.
Posted: 26 June 2008 | 16:05
Travelodge is to extend its Local Employer Partnership (LEP) commitment with the opening of a new hotel in Chester at the end of July.
Posted: 26 June 2008 | 15:29
Hospitality employers in England will be able to get their hands on a share of £112m for training staff after the Government agreed a deal to simplify access to its Train to Gain scheme.
Posted: 25 June 2008 | 10:00
Recruiting talented restaurant staff outside big cities is becoming "a real problem", industry figures have warned.
Posted: 19 June 2008 | 08:00
The race to up-skill staff for the London 2012 Olympics kicked off today with the launch of Travelodge’s new £36m, 202-bedroom hotel in Southwark.
Posted: 13 June 2008 | 14:57
London restaurant Roast has become the latest hospitality operator to pledge job opportunities to the long-term unemployed.
Posted: 12 June 2008 | 15:44
Chefs and catering staff are among the happiest workers in the UK, according to a new survey by City & Guilds.
Posted: 04 June 2008 | 00:01
Low exchange rate means Eastern Europeans working in hospitality are now looking for jobs outside the UK
Posted: 22 May 2008 | 07:00
Hospitality employers and educational establishments have been urged to work much more closely together to address the significant skills challenges that the industry is facing.
Posted: 08 May 2008 | 09:00
The National Skills Academy for Hospitality has been given the green light after the bid was approved by the Government this week.
Posted: 07 May 2008 | 11:39
Hospitality workers are among the two million people in the UK who are forced to endure “intolerably poor working lives”, a new TUC report has warned.
Posted: 07 May 2008 | 08:00
Lawyers have played down fears that a test case for “reverse discrimination” will prevent hospitality operators from employing staff based on their nationality.
Posted: 29 April 2008 | 14:43
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