Michael Hraba on hiring for hospitality – and why it’s a beautiful career:
https://hoteloperations.com/michael-hraba-hiring-for-hospitality-career/
Growing up in the hospitality business
I’ve always been around hospitality. I remember joining my dad on weekends when he had to go to the office as a kid. He was one of the first people with Hyatt, and raised his family inside the hospitality industry. Both my sister and I didn’t fall too far from the tree.
I’ve worked in a number of different independent properties in California and Colorado, and then got into the design, development, and construction of hotels and resorts. I now do project management for owners on behalf of the hotel management for five properties at Waterford Hotels & Inns. We do pure hotel management, as well as consulting. It’s a small, two generation family business.
Growing up, my dad had frequent trips to Hawaii that we joined. I’ve learned a lot from Hawaii and have a profound love of the notion of aloha and ohana, family. I found it something beautiful because unlike a city center hotel, or a Vegas resort where you got somebody with a plastered smile, the spirit of aloha hospitality is a real thing. It’s an undeniable pervasive force in their culture. It is infused with the notion of service and hospitality, and it completely informed my love of hospitality.
