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Warm greetings on a sunny winter's day in the fairest city of them all...Cape Town!
Our Recruitment arm is offering the services of a broadly skilled, motivated and experienced husband and wife hospitality team. I am sure that they would be an asset to your hospitality establishment, and are able to work as a couple anywhere in Africa, particularly as lodge managers....
Please contact me in confidence.
Best wishes
Cliff Jacobs
Managing Principal
Exquisite Hotel Consultants
CAPE TOWN
Cell: +27 (0) 84 413 1071 / +27 (0) 61 716 6951
Landline: +27 (0) 21 554 0283
Email: cliff@exquisitehotelconsultants.co.za
Web: www.exquisitehotelconsultants.com
Below please find their RESUMÉ and CVs (in bold italics):
A brief career summary ("He" and "She"):
He commenced his hotel career at the Formosa Inn, Plettenberg Bay in 1979 where he underwent an intensive initial training program and was subsequently appointed as General Manager. His daily management tasks of running all divisions of the hotel included management of the F&B operation, housekeeping, grounds and rooms maintenance, reception, banking and the nightclub.
He was offered a position with SAB (then Ohlssons Cape Breweries) as Assistant GM of the Foresters Arms pub in Cape Town in 1981. Together with the GM they shared the responsibility of all operations of the very busy pub and restaurant.
In 1982 He was offered the opportunity of returning to Plett to open a new restaurant, and they proceeded to procure a site, and assemble the entire operation from cutlery and crockery, kitchen equipment, furniture and décor and staffing. After running the restaurant for a year, He returned to his position at the Formosa Inn.
At this stage his new wife joined the business and worked as cocktail barmaid and maîtres’d in the restaurant, and was subsequently promoted to head receptionist. She also assisted with most of the daily management functions such as overseeing housekeeping, cashing up and banking and general administration.
In 1986 He & She decided to head off to Johannesburg to seek alternate careers as they wished to start a family and didn’t want to bring up children in the hotel environment. They both ended up working for Liberty Life, where they spent many successful years – She in numerous head office administration divisions, and He as a successful broker consultant, earning the prestigious title of Liberty’s Marketer of the Year in 1995.
After many years in the Life Insurance industry (He having worked as the South African GM of a British Investment company for 4 years), they decided to head for Cape Town to settle into the real estate industry. He was recruited as GM of the Pam Golding Commercial division where he ran the show for 6 years but was retrenched in 2009 when the property market hit the skids. He subsequently started on his own and in 2012 purchased a franchise of RealNet Properties where they are today.
Realnet Premier is an independently owned and operated franchise and as MD, He is responsible for inter-alia, recruitment and management of admin staff and agents, monthly financial management and budgets, as well as all aspects of marketing.
She joined her husband in 2014 and has been very successful operating as a commercial property leasing consultant and has earned RealNet’s Top Commercial Letting Agent award for the last three years in succession.
Character traits
He & She have always been passionate about excellence in customer service and honesty and ethics form the cornerstone of their operation. They both possess charismatic qualities that make them both well liked and well respected.
They are both outgoing individuals and are very fit and “young” 60-year old’s with a zest for life and infectious enthusiasm. In addition, they both possess excellent interpersonal people skills and can converse at all levels.
He is a very practical person who understands all things mechanical and has also completed numerous small building projects successfully. She has excellent administrative and organizational skills and can multi-task with agility.
They are both very computer literate and have worked extensively with the full Microsoft suite as well as PDF, and website design and management.
His extra-curricular achievements include holding a microlight pilot’s licence, a Cat C offshore powerboat licence, riding the Roof of Africa Rally and PADI scuba diving. Her culinary skills are superb and she is able to “cook up a storm” in the kitchen. They both love the outdoors as well as socializing around the braai.
The Lodge yearning
For many years now, He & She have expressed the desire to return to the hospitality industry. He has been involved in the marketing and sale of lodges, camps and farms in Botswana for a while now and this alone has heightened their lust to find a small lodge to manage.
Whilst they don’t possess hotel or hospitality degrees or diplomas, they are both “street-wise” and able to tackle any opportunity using excellent overall general knowledge, coupled with a thorough understanding of what it takes to achieve success. They would ensure that visiting guests would thoroughly enjoy the hospitality of the establishment, and not only desire to return, but would definitely spread the word!
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His CV
1979 – 1987 Formosa Inn Hotel – General Manager:
All aspects of running a successful coastal hotel including F&B, Kitchen management, Front of house management, accounting and banking, grounds and housekeeping.
1988 – 1995 Liberty Life – Executive Broker Consultant:
Marketing full range of Liberty products to independent brokers. Awarded “Marketer of the Year” in 1994.
1996 – 2001 CMI Insurance Co (Bristol & Isle of Man) – GM Africa:
Marketing full range of insurance and investment products to independent brokers. Retrenched when the Company was purchased by a UK bank.
2002 – 2005 BikeLink – Own business:
Started and successfully ran my own transport and logistics business transporting motorcycles all over the country for private individuals plus Kawasaki, Suzuki and Harley Davidson.
2005 – 2010 Pam Golding Commercial – GM:
Managed the commercial property division for PGP. All aspects of marketing, property sourcing, brokering, staff employment & HR and budgets. Retrenched after the SA property market hit the skids in 2009.
2010 – 2019 Realnet Premier – Owner:
I have successfully run my own real estate businesses for 9 years. Recruitment of admin staff and agents, managing all aspects of the business, monthly accounting and budgets and all marketing.
Qualifications and experience:
NQF5. The diploma covered all aspects of the property industry including HR, PR, finance, and law.
General (He):
He is completely computer literate, has exemplary administrative skills, ability to train, manage and motivate staff, has excellent all-round accounting and financial savvy and a practical understanding of all things mechanical.
Her CV
1977 – 1982 Southern Life, Norwich Union:
She had intensive administrative and financial experience having managed many divisions of the life insurance industry from customer services, claims and legal administration.
1982 – 1987 Formosa Inn – Cocktail barmaid, Head Receptionist, Admin:
She joined the hotel industry where her husband-to-be was GM and excelled at all aspects of the leisure industry. She trained staff in the bars, was promoted to head receptionist and carried out many aspects of the management of the hotel.
1988 – 2013 Liberty Life plus private secretary:
She managed many sections of administration within the Liberty head office and when she left there she was employed in many trustworthy positions as executive secretary to several independent insurance brokers, utilising all her learned administrative skills.
2013 – 2019 Realnet Premier – Commercial Property Broker:
She joined her husband in the business and has excelled at negotiating commercial property leases in the Western Cape. This includes procuring properties, negotiating with Landlords and tenants, signing of lease documents and general administration of the company functions.
Qualifications and experience.
General (She):
She is completely computer literate and her organizational and administrative skills are par excellence! She can plan effectively and is energetic and determined. She possesses excellent inter-personal characteristics and can communicate effectively. No problem is too big, and she copes very well under pressure!
General (He & She):
This husband and wife team would be ideal candidates to manage a busy lodge operation as they possess all the right qualities that would make them effective managers, effective problem-solvers, effective communicators and charismatic hosts.
They are financially stable, have two adult children who are financially independent and are willing and able to relocate to somewhere promising ion order to fulfil a lifelong dream.
He has also travelled through Botswana and is familiar with the lodge industry there, as he has been marketing a few lodges and farms for sale in the country on behalf of their owners.
Please consider them for an interview?
Cliff Jacobs (Nat Dpl Hotel Man (UJ). MPRE. GA Level 5 TEFL) Managing Principal / CEO Exquisite Hotel Consultants (Pty) Ltd Mobile: +27 (0) 84 413 1071 / +27 (0) 61 716 6951 Email: cliff@exquisitehotelconsultants.com Skype: cliff.jacobs Web: https://www.exquisitehotelconsultants.com © All rights reserved Terms and Conditions apply Scroll down to view our Hospitality Properties and Businesses for sale or lease or lease-to-buy or partnership arrangement or management agreement arrangement
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Cliff Jacobs (Nat Dpl Hotel Man (UJ). MPRE. GA Level 5 TEFL) Managing Principal / CEO Exquisite Hotel Consultants (Pty) Ltd Mobile: +27 (0) 84 413 1071 / +27 (0) 61 716 6951 Email: cliff@exquisitehotelconsultants.com Skype: cliff.jacobs Web: https://www.exquisitehotelconsultants.com © All rights reserved Terms and Conditions apply Scroll down to view our Hospitality Properties and Businesses for sale or lease or lease-to-buy or partnership arrangement or management agreement arrangement