Career Planning for Hospitality Students

The hospitality industry is a very lucrative and rewarding career choice. Choosing a career in this field is not for the faint at heart. A career in this industry requires an individual that is ambitious, self-motivated, and has a charismatic personality. However, the hard work comes with many personal and financial rewards. Hospitality covers all careers that can come underneath the lodging, restaurants, event planning, theme parks, transportation, and tourism. However, this paper will go in depth explaining the role of general management, growth of employment, and human

Paying attention to business ethics is crucial to all companies, including business owners. Human resources functions and associates directly with most ethical challenges in the workplace. (Ingram, 2015) Human resources deals directly with employees of a company, meaning human resources deals with and handles the numerous ethical pitfalls that can lead to a company's demise or put a dent in the reputation or financial sustainability or a company or business if not handled properly. (Busse, 2014) Understanding the importance of ethics in human resources is crucial for any company and business owner, whether in a local startup or a multinational place of business. (Ingram, 2015)

Nowadays, hospitality is required in the business fields in general such as; hotels. As we know, in the modern life, there are many of international brands and competition between hotels. However, there are some qualities we have to consider before choosing a hotel as a guest or as a job offer to work in it. (Tan, 2008) Firstly, in an ideal world every industry or even every successful person should have a vision and a mission of his or her work. So, the vision is what a person wants to achieve in a real life, the mission means what is the purpose of the business to make money or even to make charity. Following this further, a new business should put a strong vision to motivate the staff to work seriously and to reach the main goal of the industry.

The hospitality industry in the United States is one of the fastest growing branches of the market economy. The high growth rates of the hotel industry are caused not only by the growth of internal and external economic ties between countries, but also by the growth of foreign tourism. The modern hotel business in the US is a powerful industry, in the full sense of the word. The entire American hotel industry, in the first place, is designed for the domestic tourism market. For example, in Chicago for a year there are 33 million tourists, and only 2 million of them are foreigners.

The hospitality and leisure industry hug a variety of sectors and businesses across hotels, restaurants and restaurants, travel and tourism, gaming, sport and leisure. The sector is reliant on the consumer confidence and business sentiment and is facing rising pressure to deliver innovation, value and quality. Hospitality is that business that helps people to feel welcome, relaxed and to enjoy themselves. It is all about customer service and providing the best quality and experience possible for the customers. (Discover Hospitality, 2012)

As we discussed in class, every business is faced with these issues and they are important to managers making strategic decisions. One of the first things learned about business is that if there is no demand for a good or service, the firm that provides it will not continue to exist. Over time the hotel industry has continued to change with market conditions and make itself attractive to business

In my paper I intend on explaining a brief history of the Hilton Clearwater Beach, explain the type of lodging facility it is, discuss its market orientation, what services are available, and finally discuss the career opportunities available. I have compiled my information via a series of face to face interviews with current employees as well as some email communications with members of the hotels Executive Committee. I have also used the corporate website augment the information gathered in my interviews.

The data for research was gathered through primary research, in form of mailed questionnaire of opinions, performance and career paths to investigate whether formal qualifications would help the general managers in their career development. The research focussed on the career progression of general managers with qualifications or without qualifications, in 50 plus bedroom hotels that appeared on the Scottish Tourist Board. This article is useful for future graduates and future managers or general managers as it gives information of the beginning level to be a manager in hotel industry. The limitation for this research was, only 54 questionnaires were returned from 96 those were delivered. As the consequences, bias that affected data reliability and result did not represent the total sample of population. Based on research findings, the author concluded that within the changes of industry, it increases the demand for general managers to be more business-oriented. Therefore, universities start to reduce traditional approach such as food and beverage operations in the students’ subject. Moreover, formal qualifications have become an essential part for managers’ carrier in Scotland and were recognized by giving benefits in function managerial skills rather than personal transferable skills such as communication, time management, decisions making and leadership qualities. This article is useful for industry as it provides the combination of information including theories and traditional compares with modern approaches to achieve the General Manager position. It also helps educational providers to modify and improve the hospitality students’ curricula in order to meet the needs of current industry

Eddie Rivera presented to my class of about 200+ people about how to reach our dream. His presentation was not a collection of facts and numbers of the hospitality industry, nor was it a tutorial on the steps one needs to take in order to manage a group of people. Instead, Mr. Rivera told us about his life and the many struggles he had to endure. Not only was it interesting, it was exceptionally inspirational. Eddie told us that in order to achieve our dreams, we should keep moving forward, whatever the circumstances, and try to always meet people along the way. With Eddie’s philosophy, I will take on the amazing opportunities that will open up to me.

Hotel Management is such a core and foremost part of international global business related to hospitality industry which provides world-wide opportunity for different fields of jobs. I decided that hospitality management program is such a turning point for me to do better in future career prospects. Hospitality management course is a proper platform for students to develop their personal confidence and development of enthusiasm.

One of the most dominant factor is the fact that human resources are the most valuable assets of an organization. Another important principle, expressed by Ashly Pinnington in her book ‘Human Resource Management Ethics and Employment’, is that “a succesful business is more likely to be achieved if the personal polices and

Through travel and hospitality related experiences in my life I have created two major goals for my career. My first trip to Las Vegas was the time when my first major career goal was established. By walking through each hotel I could easily see that each place had a different style and way of operating. Observing these examples allowed me to determine which hotel/resort or company would be the best to work for. MGM’s Aria Resort and Casino has always stuck out to me as a well-running, high class establishment; the workers are professional, but friendly and the atmosphere is comforting while keeping up with the modern times. With this said, one of my goals is to be employed by the Aria. Although, knowing how competitive this industry can be, I would

Even when the world economy is showing a sluggish growth with uncertain employment prospects, the fast growing hospitality industry is heralding a pivotal change in career options with an exciting variety of career choices thereby increasing scope and future prospect of hospitality and tourism industry.

In the hospitality industry, which essentially comprises both a production and a service aspect, the creation and provision of services from the hotel to the customer are primarily achieved through the employee, i.e., the hotel’s representative. In this sense, the employees essentially

This report is going to present the importance of planning, recruitment and selection, training and development, reward management in the human resource management of hotel industry. For detailed consideration,