Hotel Tech Pays More, But Is It Better? | Edouard Clark
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What challenges do hotel‑tech startups face with hiring and onboarding?
Let's talk about hotel tech startups. A lot of young and inexperienced, but super intelligent people working there. But they don't have the life experience of hiring and firing people, of the whole life cycle. So they'll sign someone up, they'll recruit someone, and on the first day, there's no onboarding plan. Hotel tech isn't just a big industry, one market where everyone kind of is the same. It all starts in the recruitment stage and even in the job description. It's actually all about expectation setting. So what I usually ask my clients to do is explain to them what the worst week looks like working for you because there will be some bad days. No one really knows. what someone in a certain position, certain hierarchy and department should be earning or what is the average earnings depending on the geography that you're in, the product that you work for.
Some companies are using AI to hire people and I'd say 90% of the feedback I get from anyone in the process, whether they're a hiring manager or a candidate, a job seeker, is negative. I saw my father was always working for a very large company, and I always felt like he was just treated like a number. You know, after working for 25 years for the same company, he got made redundant. And they hired lawyers to get as much out of his severance pay, as much as possible, biting him. And it caused him so much stress that it caused him to have a heart attack. I told myself, I'm never, ever going to let myself be in a position like that.
Do you know what I believe that's the biggest lie in hospitality? The biggest lie? No. Shit.
You're listening to Shulering Hub Talking Hospitality with Mauricio Shuler.
What's up, Hospitality? Welcome back to another Schiller in Hub Talking Hospitality podcast. I am your host, Maurício Schiller, and today we are talking about hotel job, hotel tech jobs, salary, benchmarks, and a lot of other things that I'm very curious to compare, actually, what's going on in the hotel tech and compare to our hotel jobs and see if The hotel tech will take the people from the hotels to actually work there. But to that, I invited to talk to me here, Edward Clark. He's a French-British... former pro rugby player. He had his own hostel, the student house, and he worked in HR across multiple positions. He will talk about himself a little bit, but I just want to welcome you. And you're calling from Brazil, my homeland.
So that's awesome that you are there and I'm in your place here. So it's quite weird. Welcome to the show, Edwin.
Thank you, Mauricio. Bom dia.
Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to have you here. Can I call you Ed? Is that okay? Yes. Of course. It's easier. It's easier. It's easier. So, Ed, it's like, man, you have a very fantastic story, actually, right? When I research about you, and we spoke before, we spoke a few times before today, but you have a super cool story, right? You... You rebuilt HR and pre-owned it for Numa. And you opened your own, you co-founded Wondery as well. Now you founded the Hospitality Tech Jobs, which is a recruiting company for Hotel Tech. But what really calls my attention is that pro rugby and the student house. Man, how old are you? You look super young, look super good, super healthy. How did you manage to do all that and still be here now in Brazil, man?
Thank you so much for the shower of compliments. It's 8 o'clock over here in the morning. Yeah, look, to answer your question, yeah. I was always mega hooked to rugby since the age of six years old. Been playing until now, thankfully. I always wanted to become a professional rugby player, even though I was living during my childhood, not in the best rugby countries, but I was simply always around the top tier of players. And I was given an opportunity to go to South Africa to give it a real crack. And so I spent 11 months at the Sharks Academy over there. It's an academy that creates world-renowned rugby players. Went there and then ended up in Scotland playing semi-pro rugby. How I got into business, into student house, hospitality tech jobs and all that, I guess it
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