Reinventing Yourself when found between roles
Reinventing yourself when found between roles: a next role playbook for hospitality professionals. Ten pages, free, written by a hospitality executive search partner and coach.
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What is inside Reinventing Yourself when found between roles
Seven parts, written for someone who has run a property and now has to explain that in language a hiring manager outside hospitality recognizes.
The reframe
You have changed shift, not career. Why the last ten or twenty years still count, and why saying that plainly matters.
The hospitality advantage
The skills translator. Running a property means holding people, operations and revenue in one hand at once. Here is how that reads on a corporate job description.
Self discovery
A two minute diagnostic you score yourself, before you touch your resume. It is a map of where to spend your first week, not a test.
The fork in the road
Stay in hospitality, or pivot out. The decision everything else depends on, with a framework for answering it honestly.
The launch plan
Your first fourteen days in five stages, each with a fixed window and one clear output. Includes the three sentences you will repeat for the next ninety days, written out in full.
Where the doors are
The four channels every job search runs through, and which of the four should be getting most of your hours.
When the exit is senior
What structured support actually looks like, and why the first ninety days after a senior exit set the tone for what follows.
Your guide
Florian Kittler, ISHC
Hospitality, Travel & Leisure
Cornerstone Hospitality sits on both sides of this conversation every week. We run retained searches for hotel groups, restaurant portfolios and travel businesses, and we coach the leaders moving between them. That means we see what a hiring committee actually responds to, and we see what a strong candidate looks like six weeks after a difficult exit. This guide is the part of that work you can do on your own.
- Member of The International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC)
- Over three decades of expertise in the hospitality industry and in executive recruitment throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific
- Respected professional executive coaching certifications, including ICF at ACC level and EMCC at EIA level, NLP Practitioner, IN, as well as AI Manager and Consultant
- A Berlin native who has spent the last thirty years immersed in Germany, Switzerland, Dubai, Hong Kong, Doha, Manila, Beijing and Shanghai, always maintaining a strong connection to his passion for hospitality
- Swiss Higher Diploma in Hospitality and Restaurant Management from the University Centre Cesar Ritz in Switzerland
A Cornerstone Hospitality experience
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