Claire Ellison
Hospitality Recruiter
Hospitality Recruiters
Our hospitality recruiters help hotels, resorts, restaurant groups, and food service organizations hire experienced management professionals for permanent and contract roles.
- You only pay when you hire
- Shortlists built around quality
- Faster hiring without sacrificing quality
Trusted by hotels, restaurants, resorts, and hospitality organizations nationwide
800+
Hiring teams served
70+
specialized recruiters
72-96 hrs
To your first candidates
3
U.S. patents for sourcing technology
Why hospitality hiring is different
Guests remember the experience, but that experience is shaped by the people leading the operation behind the scenes. The right General Manager, Executive Chef, or Operations leader can improve service, strengthen teams, and lift performance across an entire property or portfolio.
Hiring those leaders has become much harder. According to the American Hotel & Lodging Association , 71% of hotels report open positions they can’t fill despite actively recruiting, and experienced management talent remains one of the industry’s biggest challenges.
The people you’re hoping to hire are often already succeeding elsewhere, which makes understanding the market and approaching the right professionals just as important as writing the job description.
Hospitality & food service professionals we recruit
General Managers, Hotel GMs, Resort GMs, Assistant General Managers, Front Office Managers, Directors of Housekeeping, Regional Directors of Operations, and Area Vice Presidents.
Food & Beverage Directors, Restaurant General Managers, Executive Chefs, Executive Sous Chefs, Catering Directors, Banquet Managers, Outlet Managers, and Beverage Directors.
Revenue Managers, Directors of Revenue Management, Directors of Sales, Directors of Catering Sales, Group Sales Managers, and Vice Presidents of Sales.
Directors of Engineering, Directors of Finance, Controllers, Human Resources Directors, Spa Directors, and Multi-Unit Operations Directors.
As a hospitality recruitment agency, we place leaders across full-service hotels, boutique properties, resort destinations, hotel management companies, restaurant groups, contract food service operators, and country clubs. For C-suite and VP-level hospitality searches, see our executive search practice
What separates a good hospitality hire from the wrong one
The best hospitality leaders don't just keep operations running. They influence guest experience, build stronger teams, and set the standard for how a property performs every day.
1
The property matters
Success at a luxury resort doesn't always translate to a select-service hotel or a multi-unit restaurant group. We focus on professionals whose experience reflects your property, your guests, and the way your business operates.
2
Leadership shows up on the floor
We look beyond operational experience to understand how candidates lead teams, improve service, manage financial performance, and create consistent guest experiences.
3
Every operation is different
A hotel, resort, restaurant group, and hospitality management company all hire differently. Every search is shaped around your operation, leadership structure, and the goals you're hiring to achieve.
4
Better leaders create better businesses
The right hire doesn't just fill a role. A GM who retains their department heads saves an ownership group more in avoided turnover costs than the recruiting fee will ever cost. That's the standard we recruit to.
Meet your recruiting specialists
Rehaan Roy
Hospitality Recruiter
Malcolm H
Hospitality Recruiter
70+
additional recruiters across specialized roles — each aligned to the specific hire you're making.
Recent hospitality placements
Recent searches completed by our hospitality staffing team. Anonymized to protect confidentiality.
General Manager
31 days
Luxury resort property, Scottsdale, AZ
Director of Food & Beverage
25 days
National hotel management company, Dallas, TX
Regional Director of Operations
35 days
Multi-property hotel group, Nashville, TN
Revenue Manager
21 days
Boutique hotel group, Miami, FL
Executive Chef
23 days
Destination resort, Denver, CO
Guest Experience Director
33 days
Hospitality management company, Austin, TX
Frequently asked questions
The honest answer - you don't always need one. Where a hospitality staffing agency earns its place is in management - hiring a GM who can read a P&L and manage owner expectations, an F&B Director who understands labor cost, or a Revenue Manager who can drive ADR without killing occupancy.
Those professionals are not applying. They’re running another property. Reaching them takes different access than a job posting provides.
On the hotel and resort side: General Managers, Assistant GMs, Regional Directors of Operations, Revenue Managers, Directors of Sales, F&B Directors, Front Office Managers, and Directors of Catering. On the restaurant and food service side: Restaurant GMs, Executive Chefs, Operations Directors, and multi-unit Regional Managers.
We also place roles that sit across both - HR Directors, Controllers, and VP-level positions for hospitality management companies and ownership groups.
Start with a simple question: can the recruiter tell you what a strong STR pickup looks like for a full-service hotel, or what a realistic food cost percentage is for your service model? If they can't, they can't evaluate the candidates.
An experienced hospitality recruiter screens for the things that actually predict performance - property type match, operational background, brand culture, service philosophy, and financial track record. A generalist firm working from a job title and a resume cannot do that work.
Two things. First, direct relationships our recruiters have built with hospitality professionals over time - GMs, F&B Directors, Revenue Managers they've spoken with before and can reach with a relevant conversation.
Second, structured market mapping at the start of every search: identifying who's currently in a comparable role at a comparable property before deciding who to approach. The GM or F&B Director you're looking for isn't checking job boards late at night. They're closing out the nightly report. We reach them differently.
A hospitality staffing agency is a firm that sources, vets, and places hospitality management professionals for hotels, resorts, restaurant groups, and food service operators - handling candidate identification, background verification, and role-specific screening without the employer running a posting cycle.
ExpertHiring operates as a hospitality recruitment agency focused on permanent and contract placement of employed GMs, F&B Directors, Revenue Managers, and operations leaders who are performing in comparable roles and open to the right opportunity.
Yes, our hotel recruiters support hiring across luxury resorts, boutique hotels, select-service properties, and hotel management companies, while our restaurant recruiters recruit experienced leaders for restaurant groups, food service organizations, and multi-unit operations. Every search is built around your specific operation, service model, and hiring goals.
The leaders you want are running someone else's property right now.
Experienced hospitality leaders are managing operations at competing properties right now. Our recruiters help you reach them before another ownership group does.
No upfront fees. You only pay after a successful hire.
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