To celebrate the soft-opening of Hospitality Leaders we are giving away 12 prizes to the members with the largest personal network on 31 January 2010.

The prizes are:

1st place: Apple iPod touch – The funnest iPod ever!

2nd place: Life Time Full Premium Membership to Hospitality Leaders

3rd – 10th place: One Year Full Premium Membership to Hospitality Leaders

Rules

1. You do not need to enter to win. The only requirement is to maintain an active profile at Hospitality Leaders.

2. Personal Network members must be real people. Fake profiles will lead to disqualification.

3. The winners will be determined on 1st February 2010.  The competition ends midnight GMT, 31st Janaury 2010.

4. Use of bots, programs or any automated scripts will invalidate a user from the competition.

5. The winners will be contacted by email and telephone.

6. Hospitality Leaders Administrators have final say in all decisions.

7. The person who wins first prize will get the choice of whether he/she receives the iPhone or life time premium membership to Hospitality Leaders.

Hospitality Leaders is the world's leading hospitality and travel industry talent pool.

Hospitality Leaders was not specifically designed with executive search or recruitment in mind.

However, because it gathers the world's leading talent in one convenient place it is an ideal platform to do just that!

Executive Search firms and recruiters have recognized and do exploit both social and professional networks to identify active and passive candidates.

We recognize that leaders in our industry are open to learning about opportunities and we are committed to giving both potential recruits and corporations the opportunity to identify mutually beneficial partnerships.

For our company and recruiter members, we offer a “corporate advantage” and have developed dedicated access to the leadership body of the industry.

This corporate account provides deep and far reaching access into the talent pool, far beyond what our premium membership is able to provide.

We have built a dedicated and customized solution for our corporate partners that we host for them at their own dedicated web address such as "yourname.hospitalityleaders.com"

Corporations receive dozens and more applications on daily basis and it can become challenging for most to keep track of the qualified people that introduce themselves.

Instead of loosing track of this talent pool, our corporate partners encourage potential future candidates to become members of hospitalityleaders.com to network within the industry.

Hence the talent pool that our corporate partners tap into grows exponentially.

The dedicated search access is unique to each corporate client who receives the ability to:

- Run dedicated queries

- Save searches and retain comments of interactions with potential candidates

- Upload files

- Share and track projects amongst co-workers

- Contact members that are open to learning about fitting opportunities.

- more…

For a hosted dedicated corporate solution, please contact us here.

1) If you want to be run over by a train, you need to lie down on the tracks.

• List every community you have EVER been part of (towns, schools, businesses, organizations, etc)
• List every job you’ve had
• Describe every job in detail
• List every degree, certification, license, etc.
• Set preferences to allow invites and direct contacts
• Add your alternative email addresses
• Add the top keywords which describe you
• Add all of your websites and your blogs

2) Grow your network to be found

• Collect all of those business cards and scan them in to your contact database
• Collect all past contact data (old email programs, newtons, palmpilots, etc)
• Merge all of the above into one consolidated CSV database (Outlook / Gmail etc.)

3) Be selective

• Just because someone is a connection does NOT mean you owe them recommendations and endorsements on demand
• Evaluate each recommendation on a referral-by-referral basis.