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Nurturing our talent It seems more people are leaving our industry now, than did at the height of the pandemic. As the build back begins, staff shortages have the potential to cripple the recovery. Julie Baxter reports on how we can nurse our sector back to health
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ake even the most cursory scroll through LinkedIn these days and the ‘We’re Hiring’ badges and ‘Starting a New Position’ celebratory gifs jump out all along your time line. Our networks and our industry are in a state of flux. These tags are clearly a sign of hope and are, of course, better than the wall to wall 'Open to Work' badges everywhere as redundancy
raged through the pandemic, but the HR and recruitment challenges now facing our sector are immense, and they are touching us all – airlines, caterers and suppliers - alike. The results are already hitting operations, and in some cases the headlines, with airline cancellations, limited onboard catering, the delayed roll out of buy-on-board retail programmes, as well as kitchen closures and the
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