Employee turnover is a common challenge in the hospitality industry, whether managing a restaurant or running a hotel.
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Employee Value Proposition: Is it beneficial to your hotel?
An EVP can be potentially one of the best ways to improve the amount of commitment to your brand that you receive from new and old employees, increasing their performance and overall job satisfaction. Also, having such a fantastic structure could help you attract top end employees.
But what exactly is an EVP and how can it be of help to your hotel?
EVP, in essence, stands for Employee Value Proposition, something which measures the exact balance between how much an employee gives to the hotel, in return for what they receive. Doing this allows you to measure just how happy they are in their jobs, displaying how well they perform.
The major challenge for hotels is firstly finding and then retaining fantastic employees. Logically, you want the best team member possible running your establishment, as this will give a major boost to customer service, sales and overall recommendations and performance. If you have a team full of motivated workers, a fantastic workset is sure to follow. You want your team members to hold knowledge and experience, as this gives you great amounts of diversity in your business.
What you must understand is, whilst a team member may be currently happy in their job, if they were to receive a separate offer from another business that would give them higher benefits and base salary, they must weigh up the chances and do what’s best for their future. So, following on from this, how can you implement an EVP system to counter act offers from competitors?
EVP is itself a way of comparing reward and benefit, with job performance and reward both being viewed in an equal ground. It shows your employees why improving their job performance will give them higher benefits in future. Here’s a list of what benefits the business can reap from implementing your own version of EVP:
Whilst all of these sound incredibly appealing to your brand, you must first implement an effective EVP into your business. Here are a few ideas into what you can do:
What benefits can you offer to your workers as part of the EVP? Here are a few ideas below:
Essentially, this will increase brand awareness, performance and most important of all: loyalty!
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Recruiters in the UK’s hospitality sector are to become even busier in 2014 as rates of hiring in the hospitality industry have risen in the last few months of this year. An upturn in hiring is plain to see in a survey publish by the Confederation of British Industry.
Despite the growth of hospitality jobs available to everybody nationwide, a worry for skill shortages has shined through with the new demand for staff.
According to the survey by the Confederation of British Industry, a total of 151 firms in the UK, including restaurants, bars and hotels said that their staff numbers grew strongly for the third time since last year.
The evidence of a rise in UK employment for the hospitality sector and its associated businesses comes as organisation The National Forest says it will create up to 2,000 new jobs in six years thanks to an increase in the tourism levels that the UK is bringing.
The research, which was also carried out by The National Forest, has said that the organisation expects to hire a massive total of 6,500 people in the woodland based economy by 2020, which comes as a direct result of the economic value and visitor numbers brought to the area through tourism and local naturalists.
The National Forest are also said to be providing work opportunities for both training and work preparation for young adults in their local community as well as those who suffer from employability barriers, which will both aid the National Forest and teach young adults and alike valuable work skills.
A massive 21% of growth was since in 2014 for the uprising of the hospitality sector, as jobs advertised went skyward with their figures. A total of 34,000+ jobs were being advertised for a number of hospitality businesses through the Caterer.com website. The year on year growth was also considerably stronger, seeing a sizeable increase of 14%, with equalled to a grand total of 126,000+ individual job postsings being listed on the site.
So, what does this mean for the hospitality industry? Is it good that more opportunies are becoming available or is it going to be difficult to fill the demand with skills workers?
Leave your ideas in the comments below!
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The hospitality industry underwent a healthy growth last year according to Caterer.com. The industry experienced a growth of 8% in jobs throughout 2013, with an increase of a massive 16% coming in the final quarter compared to previous years. Applications are said to have fallen by around 5% per job throughout 2013, so whilst this could actually mean that fewer people are applying for the roles they come across in their job hunt, it could also mean that hospitality candidates are becoming more and more selective in their job hunt, expressing more interest in the options available to them.
The trend has seemed to continue into 2014, with 12,000 jobs being advertised for the hospitality industry in the few months. The sectors included range from food and pubs to restaurants and hotels, outlining the need for numerous employers to continue their attempts in attractive new talent in the hospitality industry.
The hotel sector may be experiencing some of its best growth in years as Scotland is enjoying a huge growth, where some job levels increased by a fifth last year, driving a huge 20% increase compared to 2012. Applications for each job were also at a high, potentially highlighting a recruitment drive paying off in the Scottish hotel industry. Scotland is also experiencing a considerable growth in their food service, with adverts for the sector rising by 22% when compared with last year. The East and South East of England, along with Wales, are experiencing a hike in recruitment activity, whilst London suffered a decrease of 14%. This figure could be down to big businesses moving from London, wishing to avoid the expensive costs of office space.
The hotel sector as a whole seemingly experienced a huge increase in finance as the hotel budgets grow along with the sector. This has led to pressures on the industry being hiked by investors and owners alike, so companies have had to change their talent strategies. Hotels are responding to the increase by boosting the strength of their employer bran identities, which makes talent the centre of their customer offerings. There’s an increased demand for specialist skills, such as chefs, as they grew 2.6% on their own, a move away from the traditional cook.
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Yes it’s true thanks to a recent survey from Barclays, in early Jan 2014 they had questioned more than 684 businesses in the hospitality sector, They estimate that more then 2/3rds of the hospitality sector plan to increase wages.
Yes it’s very true so if you work in the hospitality sector then you may expect some wage increases this year from up to 69% of the businesses. Despite the rising living costs and inflation in the UK it’s said that over half of businesses in Hospitality & Leisure sector said that wage pressure from employees is not an issue..
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