Tovalea Executive

Tovalea is a cabinet de recrutement expert in placing cadres in the hotel sector, working by approche directe on cadres dirigeants. It evaluates, recruits and presents candidates whose career path will succeed inside the client establishment, and it calls itself a creator of professional coups de foudre. Its services are Chasse, the selection of the best talent for executive posts, Sourcing, the qualification of candidates for a client's own process, and a bilan de compétences built specifically for hoteliers. Over 10 years it has built a recruitment experience it describes as human and valorising, and it claims to be the first cabinet de recrutement to have asserted a positioning that is 100 per cent candidate oriented.

That candidate first stance is the engine of the business. Careers in hôtellerie and restauration are examined closely and grouped into a deliberately limited and qualitative vivier that Tovalea calls the core of its reactor, which is what guarantees clients professional and qualitative talent already federated to the cabinet. Published placements include a Directrice Générale at Maison Nô in 2019, a Directrice des Exploitations for Groupe Okko Hotels in February 2018 and a Directeur Général Groupe at Groupe Pichet in 2018, and its candidate ambassadors have taken roles such as general manager of a four star boutique hotel in pre-opening, general manager of a five star lifestyle boutique hotel and group operations director for a four star hotel group.

Tovalea publishes hard numbers on its work: a 100 per cent transformation rate, meaning every assignment ends in a placement, 99 per cent of candidates placed in the last five years still developing with the client, and 99 per cent of placements passing the six month période d'essai. Client testimonials come from Olivier Derycke, President of Set On Invest, Solenne Devys, Directrice Produit et Communication, and Olivier Jacquet, Directeur du Pôle Hôtelier, who cite its knowledge of the ground, its ability to translate a need into a job description and its grasp of company culture. The cabinet is not elitist about which client universes it serves, provided the employer promise is transparent and the assignment is open to strategic reflection.