No experience, no resume, you're hired! Hotels fight for staff

A sign that reads "Waiter needed. If interested, drop CV" is posted on the window of a restaurant in central Madrid, Spain, May 31, 2022. Picture taken May 31, 2022. REUTERS/Susana Vera

DOHA/LISBON/MADRID (Reuters) - Top European hotel chains are hiring workers without experience or even a resume as executives admit years of underpaying staff have come back to bite, leaving them unable to meet post-pandemic travel demand.

Thousands of workers left the hospitality industry when international travel shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many chose not to return, finding better paid employment elsewhere, leaving hoteliers facing a desperate shortage.