Marriott posts new job listings, as market awakens in China

Marriott International has begun to add job listings on recruitment websites, in an early sign of recovery from an international lockdown that has devastated the global hotel industry.

Most of the jobs listed, are for the Chinese market.

In March, as the Coronavirus pandemic set in, the hospitality industry put a complete stop on hiring as revenues plummeted.

But in the past two weeks, job listings at Marriott International saw their first spike since March. The jump in job listings is certainly telling, but the types of jobs Marriott is hiring for, show early signs of international travel for an industry so dependent on such activity.

By May 25, 2020, Marriott’s careers website listed 2,031 openings. That’s up from a low of 1,764 on May 19. A large majority of Marriott’s hiring recovery appears to be in China, where front-of-house positions from everything including front-desk clerks to massage therapists have begun flooding the company’s HR sites.

The company is hiring for as many as 90 new positions at the W Chengdu, 77 at the Shenzhen Renaissance, and another 60 at the Shenyang Marriott.

Interestingly, the Wuhan Four Points by Sheraton, in the same area where the coronavirus made its way into the world population, is now hiring for 44 customer-facing openings. The most in-demand positions include guest-facing representatives, cooks, general managers and housekeepers.