Most recruitment agencies build their candidate pool from resumes and referrals. SG Recruitment Consulting starts from somewhere different: thirty years of actually working alongside the people in that pool, in the properties they worked in.
A network built through work, not through sourcing
Over a career spanning Ireland, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Vietnam, Bangladesh, France, Réunion Island, Côte d'Ivoire and Nepal, Stephane Meunier has personally hired, trained, mentored and worked beside hundreds of Executive Chefs, F&B Managers and culinary leaders. Openings at The Secret Con Dao in Vietnam, the Radisson Saint-Denis on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean, Six Seasons Hotel in Dhaka, and the Royal Tulip Sea Pearl Beach Resort in Cox's Bazar each added professionals to that network — people whose actual work Stephane has seen firsthand, not just their CV.
Why breadth of region matters
Hospitality standards, guest expectations and staffing challenges look different in Riyadh than they do in Da Nang, and different again in Kathmandu or Réunion Island. Having run operations across all of these markets — including a General Manager posting at Varnabas Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2025 — means being able to judge whether a candidate's experience will actually transfer to a new market, rather than assuming a strong CV in one region guarantees success in another.
What this means for your search
When SG Recruitment Consulting recommends a candidate, that recommendation is grounded in direct observation of how that person performs under pressure — during a pre-opening, a rebranding, a COVID-era reopening, or a high-volume banquet season — not a screening call. That is the difference between recruiting from a database and recruiting from a career.
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