3 Years. Hundreds of Applications. Barely Any Interviews. What Are We Doing Wrong?
My father has over 30 years of experience in hospitality management and hotel operations, including senior leadership and pre-opening projects. For the last 3 years, we’ve been applying continuously to jobs across different countries and positions, but we’re barely getting interviews.
I’ve rewritten and edited his resume many times trying to improve it, optimize formatting, ATS keywords, achievements, structure, LinkedIn profile, everything I can think of. Still, most applications either get ignored or only attract low-quality opportunities that don’t match his experience level.
At this point, I genuinely don’t know what’s going wrong anymore.
I would really appreciate honest feedback from recruiters, hiring managers, or anyone experienced with executive hospitality resumes. Is the market this bad? Is there something wrong with modern executive resumes? Are senior candidates being filtered out because of age, salary expectations, overqualification, or ATS systems?
If anyone is willing to review the resume and give direct feedback, I’d be very grateful. I’ll attach an anonymized version in the comments/post.
Thank you.