Schulering HUB Talking Hospitality Podcast
Schulering Hub is a hospitality training consultancy. Helping hotels and restaurants discover their training needs, training the trainers, and offering training procurament from its rich network of professionals.
Schulering audits, assesses, optmizes, and structures every step of your internal hotel guest - Your Staff. From the pre-employment to departparture, we help hotels build their employer branding by doing all the rights things with their people, turning staff into ambassadors of the brand.
Our podcast, Talking Hospitality aims to raise awareness of the PEOPLE in our industry doing what we preech, showing the impact that treating your staff well do to your business.
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Schulering HUB Talking Hospitality Podcast
Hotel Tech Pays More, But Is It Better? | Edouard Clark
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Hotel tech salaries, hiring, and the truth about AI: what hospitality pros need to know before they jump
Hotel tech is not one market, one pay scale, or one career path - and if you are a hotelier thinking about making the leap, this conversation could save you from a very expensive mistake. Mauricio Schuler sits down with Edouard Clark to break down the salary benchmarks, hiring patterns, and human realities behind hotel tech careers.
Edouard’s path is anything but typical: former rugby player, founder, HR builder, property operator, and now the force behind Hospitality Tech Jobs. That mix of lived hospitality experience and recruiting insight gives him a rare view into what hotel tech companies actually need, what candidates really earn, and why the best hires are often the ones who understand pressure firsthand.
You’ll discover:
- Why hotel tech salaries vary wildly by geography, product type, and function
- Why the U.S. pays the most, and why France can be especially inconsistent
- Which roles are hardest to fill, from AI engineering to German-speaking sales
- Why customer success can be as stressful as hotel operations
- What the salary benchmark report reveals about sentiment, E-NPS, and surprising gender gaps
Mauricio and Edouard also dig into the recruiting side of the industry. Edouard explains why ex-GMs often thrive in hotel tech sales, why empathy matters more than upselling buzzwords in customer success, and why speaking the local language can make or break a rollout.
They also go deep on onboarding, expectation setting, and the mistake many startups make by hiring first and figuring out leadership later.
The episode gets especially sharp when the conversation turns to AI. Edouard shares why “human in the loop” will matter more than ever, how AI is already reshaping hiring and job design, and why human judgment still wins when the stakes are high.
If you are building a hotel tech team, recruiting for hospitality, or wondering whether the industry is really ready for AI-driven change, this is essential listening.
Perfect for hospitality leaders, hotel tech founders, recruiters, and any hotel professional considering a move into tech - this episode is packed with data, hard-earned lessons, and practical advice you can use right away.
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Schulering is a Hospitality Training Consulting company specialized in Employee Experience Design (EXD)
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