Finding applicants isn’t the challenge. Finding the person who has the experience, judgment, and fit to succeed in your organization is.
Xclusive Direct Hire combines hospitality expertise with a highly selective recruiting process to identify, qualify, and present candidates worth your time.
Xclusive’s hospitality recruiters work as a hotel recruiting firm and restaurant recruiting partner, placing permanent talent with hotels, resorts, restaurants, hospitality organizations, and management companies, from property and unit-level operations to corporate support and leadership roles. We are backed by Xclusive’s national hospitality staffing network.
A job description tells us part of the story. We want to understand the organization, the role, the operating environment, and what success will look like once someone is hired.
We ask questions early, test assumptions when necessary, and help sharpen the search before candidates enter the process.
The questions that shape the search
Xclusive recruits permanent talent across hotels, resorts, restaurants, hospitality organizations, and management companies. Our searches span frontline leadership, operational roles, and the corporate teams that support hospitality businesses at scale.
As a hotel recruiting firm focused on permanent placement, we help owners and management companies find General Managers, Assistant General Managers, Food & Beverage leaders, Rooms and Housekeeping leaders, and Executive Chefs.
Every hotel search starts with the property: the brand, the guest, the team, and what the next leader has to deliver. We recruit beyond the active applicant pool and present only the candidates we would hire ourselves.
Need hourly or temporary coverage instead? See our hospitality staffing services.
Our restaurant recruiters place General Managers, Assistant General Managers, Executive Chefs, Sous Chefs, Bar Managers, and Directors of Operations for single-unit and multi-unit operators.
We also recruit the corporate support teams behind restaurant groups, including finance, human resources, marketing, training, and research & development.
Some roles call for a more focused search. Xclusive supports hospitality executive search for directors, vice presidents, and corporate leaders across hotels, resorts, restaurants, and management companies.
Tell us about the role and we will outline how we would approach it. Start a Search.
Instead of filling your inbox with résumés, our goal is to bring you the strongest two or three candidates we believe deserve serious consideration.
We learn the role, organization, expectations, compensation, and operating environment.
We recruit beyond the active applicant pool, including experienced professionals who may not be looking.
We evaluate experience, operational fit, career history, communication, and potential concerns.
We stay involved through interviews, references, offers, and the conversations that close a great hire.
Hotels, resorts, restaurants, and hospitality organizations are complex operating environments. A candidate who looks right on paper still has to understand the pace, expectations, service culture, and realities of the business.
Xclusive is built around hospitality. That industry focus gives our Direct Hire team context for evaluating candidates that goes well beyond matching experience and keywords to a job description.
25+ years of recruiting & talent acquisition experience
Jennifer Tierney brings more than 25 years of recruiting and talent acquisition experience to Xclusive Services, including work placing professionals across hospitality operations, corporate functions, and executive leadership.
Her search process is grounded in straightforward philosophy: recruiting is ultimately an exercise in judgment. Her team’s job is to understand the search well enough to recognize the people who deserve to be in it.
Jennifer approaches every candidate recommendation with a simple standard: Would I hire this person myself?
Or reach Jennifer directly · Director of Hospitality Recruitment
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Our hospitality recruiters work with hotels, resorts, and restaurants in markets across the country. See all Xclusive locations, or start with one of these markets:
Fee details are discussed once we understand the role and the search, so contact our team to talk through your situation.
A hospitality staffing agency supplies hourly or temporary workers to cover shifts and events. A hospitality recruiting firm finds permanent, direct-hire talent such as General Managers, chefs, and corporate leaders. Xclusive offers both, and this page covers direct hire.
Timelines depend on the role, the market, compensation, and how quickly your team can interview and decide. We set realistic expectations with you at the start of every search and keep the process moving through references and offer.
Yes. We recruit beyond the active applicant pool, including experienced hospitality professionals who are not actively looking but would consider the right opportunity.
We place permanent talent for hotels, resorts, restaurants, hospitality organizations, and management companies, including General Managers, Assistant General Managers, Food & Beverage leaders, Executive Chefs, Sous Chefs, Rooms and Housekeeping leaders, Directors of Operations, and corporate support roles.
Subscription gives you access to a dedicated Xclusive recruiter who knows your organization and works your searches as they open. It is an alternative to contingent search for organizations with ongoing hiring needs.
Every permanent hire carries an investment of time, money, leadership attention, and trust. The recruiting process should reflect what is at stake.
Xclusive Direct Hire helps hospitality organizations conduct searches with greater focus, reach candidates they might not find on their own, and make hiring decisions with better information.
