What’s It Like Recruiting in a Pandemic? These 3 Corp Travel Startups Can Tell You
Photo Credit: Technology-focused companies are recruiting in anticipation of travel returning in new ways. Unsplash / Briana Tozour
Skift Take
You can glean a fair idea of where travel management is heading from these vacancies — and how the pandemic has changed the art of hiring.
Nothing is easy in a pandemic, even recruiting staff.
Corporate travel bookers TruTrip and TravelBank, alongside accommodation provider AltoVita, are hiring for a variety of reasons, from laying foundations to creating specialist pandemic-related roles. But they all have one type of role they’re hoping to fill in common: the product manager.
However, while you'd expect the talent pool to have widened considerably over the past year, recruiting isn’t as straightforward as you might think.
Plugging In
TruTrip is one of few companies to have launched in the middle of this crisis, and its co-founder Hugh Batley actually thinks this will give the Singapore-based business travel platform the edge when the trips restart.
“Business travel will come back more complex, on a route-by-route basis. So how can we help people do that?” said Batley. He now wants to position TruTrip as a platform for smaller and medium-sized companies that doesn’t just focus on booking for them, bu
