Connecting Kenya's hospitality professionals with the right opportunities. From line staff to executive roles — faster, smarter, and built for the industry.
What We Do
HotelNet is Kenya's dedicated platform for hospitality recruitment and supplier management. Whether you're running a five-star resort or a boutique lodge, we make finding the right people — and the right products — effortless.
Our algorithm filters candidates by star-rating experience, department skills, and live availability — surfacing the right hire, not just any hire.
In-network employment verification across all member hotels. See a candidate's real work history within the platform before the first interview.
Connect with verified F&B, linen, maintenance, and tech vendors. Manage service requests, track deliveries, and pay via M-Pesa — all in one place.
A glimpse of the hospitality positions our member hotels are actively hiring for. Sign in to see the full feed across all 47 counties.
The Process
Register your property and configure your employer profile with your hotel's details, star rating, and department structure in minutes.
Use department-specific templates to go live in minutes. Filter requirements by star-rating experience, skills, and availability.
Receive ranked candidate suggestions instantly. Browse profiles with verified employment history drawn from the entire HotelNet hotel network.
Schedule interviews, score candidates on shared digital scorecards, then send e-signed offer letters and run background checks — every step tracked from your dashboard.
Create a detailed profile showcasing your skills, experience, certifications, and specialisations. Set your job-seeking status — active, passive, or not looking.
Filter vacancies by county, department, hotel star rating, and salary range. Apply to multiple positions with a single click.
The platform alerts you the moment a vacancy matches your profile — so opportunities come to you, not the other way around.
Track your application status in real-time, receive interview invites, and accept digital offers directly on the platform.
"Verified" is the word our entire platform turns on. Here's exactly how we earn it — three checkpoints every professional and supplier passes through before they ever appear in a hotel's shortlist.
Government-issued ID is cross-checked against the National Bureau registry. Every account on HotelNet is a real, traceable person — no anonymous CVs, no ghost suppliers.
We confirm work history directly with member hotels on the network. If a candidate says they spent three years at a coastal resort, the resort itself signs that off inside the platform — not a phone reference.
After every placement, employers and professionals rate each other on a hospitality-specific scorecard. Reliability, craft, attendance, attitude — visible to anyone considering them next.
Supplier Management
Managing suppliers is critical for smooth hotel operations. We help you build lasting relationships with vendors who meet your standards for quality, pricing, and reliability — from F&B suppliers to IT and maintenance.
We're not anti-WhatsApp — most of us got our first jobs that way. But for an industry hiring at scale, ad-hoc methods cost more than they look like they do.
The Kenya Hospitality Opportunity
Kenya's hospitality sector is one of the fastest-growing in East Africa. Yet sourcing qualified, verified talent remains one of hotels' most persistent operational challenges — across all 47 counties.
The sector contributes over 8% of Kenya's GDP, yet structured recruitment infrastructure remains critically underdeveloped.
Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · 2023
We're not the ones who get to call ourselves great. Here's what hoteliers, chefs, suppliers and HR teams say after working with HotelNet on real hires and real supply chains.
We filled a sous-chef vacancy in eleven days — through HotelNet — that had been open on our side for almost four months. The candidate's previous employer was already on the network, so we saw a real performance record before the first interview.
I'd been working through WhatsApp groups and word-of-mouth for years. HotelNet was the first time someone actually saw the full picture of my career — ten years across three properties — and put me in front of the right kitchens.
As a small produce supplier in Naivasha, getting onto hotel approved-vendor lists used to be impossible. The HotelNet supplier network changed that overnight — I'm now delivering to seven properties weekly with M-Pesa payouts on time.
Our 40% annual staff turnover dropped to 19% in the first year. Better hires at the front, fewer ghosted shifts at the back — and a real HR dashboard instead of three different spreadsheets.
My culinary class graduates used to disappear into informal attachments. The HotelNet intern program gave us structured placements, real evaluations, and a way to track how our students do six months in.
What sold me was the verification. Every candidate I shortlist has a real employment history I can check — across properties on the platform — not just a CV I have to take on faith. That changes hiring entirely.
From the coast to the rift valley, our network of hotels, professionals and suppliers spans all 47 counties — with regional teams in three of Kenya's largest hospitality corridors.
"HotelNet is quietly rewiring how Kenya's hospitality industry hires." — Business Daily, 2025
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