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Hotels: Graduate Recruitment: Why hospitality employers are poor at replying to job applications

Hotels: Graduate Recruitment: Why hospitality employers are poor at replying to job applications - Photo (c) SSTH

“Why do hospitality employers not respond to job applications?” – This is a question that I often get asked by young hospitality students and alumni. A fair question if this is indeed the case, and seemingly it is. Just this month I visited 3 hotel schools in Switzerland and during the question and answer session at the end of my presentation, I asked if anyone had directly experienced this scenario. Approximately 70% of the students indicated that they had submitted job applications in response to an advertisement, and they had never received a response from the prospective employer.