Al Selection

AL Sélection is a French recruitment company that describes itself as a cabinet de chasseurs de talents specialising in the service professions. It recruits personnel for hôtellerie and restauration, and it presents its work as recruitment made to measure for each client. The site separates its two audiences from the first question it asks a visitor, are you a candidate or a company, and it runs sections explaining how the company works, what it offers candidates, what it offers employers, its own history and the clients who trust it. Its guiding quotation, that if you choose work you love you will never have to work a day in your life, sets the tone for a firm that argues the difference lies in the human element.

The company is expert in the tourism, hôtellerie, restauration, events and retail sectors, and it also covers the support functions behind them. Its published offers show the level it recruits at and the detail it works with: a revenue manager on a nine month CDD for a four star hotel of 298 rooms in the ninth arrondissement with a restaurant, meeting rooms and a bar, together with a second four star hotel of 123 rooms in Strasbourg; a maintenance technician on a CDI for a 42 room four star hotel in the first arrondissement; a junior head chef for a five star hotel with 21 rooms and four suites near Montélimar that holds a Michelin star across its three restaurants; and barman, gouvernant d'étages and chef de rang positions in five star and four star hotels in Paris.

AL Sélection recruits for establishments in Paris and in the provinces, from central arrondissement hotels to properties in the Drôme. It names three things as its case to clients: its atout, a perfect knowledge of the ground so that it understands what each side expects; its force, analysing and understanding a client's needs and expectations; and its objectif, creating a durable and trusting relationship between candidates and companies. Because its consultants come from the service professions themselves, the briefs it publishes carry salary, hours, rest days and language requirements in full, which is how it sets expectations before a candidate applies.