Hiring for new hotels before they open
Rania is a freelance recruiter in Amman. She finds chefs, waiters and front-desk staff for hotels and restaurants.
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The challenge
The best time to call a new hotel is two months before it opens, while it is still hiring. Rania hears about openings from friends, usually the week of the ribbon cutting. By then, a big agency has staffed the whole place.
How the flow works
With xMap Flows, Rania built Herald. Herald is an AI employee: a flow of 6 blocks.
Every Sunday morning,
Sunday mornings (Schedule)
Herald reads the business news for hotels and restaurants about to open in Amman,
Hotels about to open (News)
keeps the ones it has not seen,
Not seen before (Only new)
works out the roles each will need and when it opens,
Roles and opening date (xMap LLM)
puts the soonest first,
Soonest first (Sort and limit)
and books Rania a call two months before each opening.
A call, two months ahead (Google Calendar)
What it solves
- Hears of openings late: solved by News and Only new
- Calls after hiring ends: solved by xMap LLM and Google Calendar
- Big agencies get there: solved by Sort and limit and Google Calendar
The result
This Sunday, Herald finds five openings, including a boutique hotel in Jabal Amman that will need forty staff. The calls are already in her calendar, each two months before opening day. Rania staffs that whole kitchen before any agency hears of it.
Rania used to arrive at the ribbon cutting. Now she arrives at the hiring.
An illustrative scenario: the figures are modelled to show what the flow produces, not a customer's results.
The flow, block by block
- 1
- 2
Hotels about to open
Stories from news feeds (RSS or Atom) or a website’s news page: title, link, when, the source and a short summary.
- 3
Not seen before
Lets through only the items this flow has not found before, so a daily flow sends only what is new.
- 4
- 5
Soonest first
Puts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- 6
Templates to build it
Ready-made flows with the same blocks. Open one, change the city and the kind of place, and run it.
- Mergers, lawsuits and fines in the business newsMergers, lawsuits and fines in the news each morning, with the practice that could help.
- New festivals, tours and conferences in the newsFestivals, tours and conferences announced in the news, each with a sales angle.
- Disaster and relief news every morning, on a mapDisasters in the morning news, placed on a map, in a short brief.
- Climate and environment news, every weekdayThe climate and environment news each weekday, on a map, in a short brief.
- Supply chain disruptions in the newsStrikes, closures and shortages in the news that could hit your suppliers, each morning.
- Tech companies raising money or expanding, from the newsCompanies raising money or expanding in the tech news, each with a sales angle.
Industries
Learn how it works
- Location intelligenceUsing where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selectionChoosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- Lead scoringRanking prospects by how likely they are to buy.
- Build your first flow in ten minutesFrom a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- Enrich a list onceA CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Bring in news storiesRead news feeds or a news page, keep what matters, put the places on a map.
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