11,000 euro recruitment bonus - Landhotel breaks new ground
Cooks (m/f/d) and service staff, primarily late shift (m/f/d) wanted immediately - Best conditions! The small call for help immediately catches the eye on the homepage of the remote country hotel Gut Thansen in Sodersdorf in the Lüneburg Heath. What makes it special: A bonus of up to 11,000 euros is paid for chefs and late-night staff - provided they stay for three years. The welcome bonus of 5,000 euros (277.77 euros per month) is not paid immediately, but is spread over 18 months from the date of recruitment and will be deducted later.
"We want people to stay for a long time," says Managing Director Philipp von Stumm, who has been running the seminar hotel with his wife Christine for 20 years. They pay above the standard pay scale and also offer high referral bonuses when employees recruit new colleagues. "Exceptional salaries at exceptional times," is the credo of the former farmer and later trainer in adult education. He has already attracted two chefs and a waitress with these offers. The estate employs more than 50 people - but because it is currently fully booked with corporate events, there is still a lack of employees.
In times of need, the farm advertises with flyers, a large banner on the access road and appeals to courier drivers and neighbors, who now help out as grill masters, at least on an hourly basis. Two catering trainees were recruited through an agency in Indonesia and live on the extensive grounds. Due to the difficulty of finding accommodation in the surrounding area, the number of employee apartments is to be increased.
Since 2017, for example, the attitude of young people in particular has changed and weekend leisure time has become more important than it used to be, says von Stumm. Years ago, there were still around 30 applications for job advertisements, but today sometimes none at all: "You can't moan about it, you have to find solutions."
The German hotel industry is lagging behind in terms of pricing, with many other countries such as Scandinavia demanding higher prices. "I'm the driver with colleagues, I push prices up." For example, every employee gets two euros more per hour for working at the weekend. Anyone who stays late in the evening in service receives a surcharge of 16 euros from midnight onwards.
And because it is so difficult to get staff for the weekends, Gut Thansen has reduced the number of wedding celebrations from 50 a year to 10 to 15. "We even have up to 300 requests," reports von Stumm, who specializes in corporate events and seminars. "We live 80 percent from Hamburg."
In the hospitality industry, the landlord of Gut Thansen offers an impressive recruitment bonus of up to 11,000 euros to chefs and late-night staff who commit to a three-year contract, demonstrating their commitment to employee retention. Recognizing the challenges in the German hospitality industry, the managing director of Gut Thansen, Philipp von Stumm, continually innovates his compensation strategies, offering higher wages for weekend work and weekend surcharges for staff working late in the evening.
Source: www.dpa.com
