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CEO of fast-growing local company got his start mowing yards

Professional Alternatives

Myers founded Professional Alternatives — which employs 17 — in 1999, and today it ranks on Houston Business Journal’s 2013 Fast 100 list, which is based on revenue growth from 2010 to 2012. The 2013 Houston Fast 100 Awards Ceremony will be held Sept. at the downtown Hilton Americas Hotel. 6 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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Staffing News of the Day, November 4, 2013

Staffing Talk

ID Medical has been crowned ‘ Best Recruitment Company to Work for ’ at the Recruitment International Awards 2013 [PR Web]. Alabama hotels: “ We would love not to have to use the H-2B program” [AL]. Google listing your website as “infected ” [CNN Money].

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Staffing News of the Day, May 21, 2013

Staffing Talk

Monster employer survey finds demand for engineering jobs is higher in 2013 [Fort Mill Times]. Staffing company promised foreign students jobs at upscale hotels, furnished apartments, and work transportation, but didn’t deliver [WAFB]. Five medical centers in California brace for a two-day union strike [Wall Street Journal].

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Getting a foot in the door in the catering industry

Recruiting Blogs

IBISWorld, specialists in business information and market research, found that the catering market experiences an annual growth of 1% between 2013 and 2018, and currently has a workforce of over 28,000. In April 2018, Lake District Hotels, a hotel group in Cumbria, launched a ‘Hotel Academy’ to train aspiring chefs and practise fine dining.

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Evolution of a company retreat: from product updates to breaking bread

Workable

The first time we did it [in 2013],” he says, “the company must have had between five and 10 people.” But Nikos and his colleagues decided that everyone should be involved in such a company retreat – even as the number of people to be flown in and put in hotels was growing. That, of course, was an easy thing to plan for.

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40 Amsterdam Tech Startups To Work For (or Follow) in 2019

Jobbatical

Bidroom is a commission-free hotel booking platform that connects hotels directly with customers. Customers pay a membership fee to access 120,000 hotels in 128 countries with a 5-25% discount on their reservations. Founded by ex-basketball player Camille Richardson and Serge Brabander in 2013, they have raised $5.82

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Staffing News of the Day, September 10, 2013

Staffing Talk

Two-thirds of staffing companies providing workers to north Florida hotels violated overtime and wage laws [WJCT]. Japanese giant Recruit Co. wants to buy Freelancer.com for $400 million [Tech Crunch].